{"id":20453,"date":"2025-01-05T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/motorbike-sized-tuna-sold-to-tokyo-sushi-restaurateurs-for-1-3m\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T15:52:08","slug":"motorbike-sized-tuna-sold-to-tokyo-sushi-restaurateurs-for-1-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/motorbike-sized-tuna-sold-to-tokyo-sushi-restaurateurs-for-1-3m\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorbike-sized tuna sold to Tokyo sushi restaurateurs for $1.3m"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sushi restaurateurs in Tokyo say they have paid 207m yen ($1.3m; \u00a31m) for a bluefin tuna which is about the size and weight of a motorbike.<\/p>\n

The sale is the second highest price ever paid at the annual new year auction at Toyosu Fish Market in the Japanese capital.<\/p>\n

Onodera Group, which had the winning bid, said the tuna – which weighs in at 276kg (608lb) – would be served at its Michelin-starred Ginza Onodera restaurants, as well as Nadaman restaurants across the country.<\/p>\n

“The first tuna is something meant to bring in good fortune,” Onodera official Shinji Nagao told reporters after the auction, news agency AFP reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Nagao added that he hoped people would eat the tuna – caught off the Aomori region in northern Japan – and “have a wonderful year”.<\/p>\n

The group has paid the top price in the Ichiban Tuna auction for five years straight. <\/p>\n

Last year, it forked out 114m yen for the top tuna. <\/p>\n

The highest auction price since comparable records began in 1999 was 333.6m yen in 2019 for a 278kg bluefin. <\/p>\n

It was paid by self-styled Japanese “Tuna King” and sushi restaurant owner<\/a> Kiyoshi Kimura.<\/p>\n

Toyosu fish market, which opened in 1935, claims to be the biggest fish market in the world, and is known for pre-dawn daily tuna auctions. <\/p>\n

But tuna was not the only catch on offer on Sunday, with Hokkaido sea urchins also fetching a record-breaking 7m yen according to the Japan Times. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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