Tsukiji Fish Market

Tsukiji is the biggest fish market in the world, and unlike some superlatives, there is no doubt in the visitor's mind that this is the case.

It is several football fields large, and filled with hundreds of little stalls hawking every weird undersea creature you've never seen before.

But before you even enter the huge hanger-style enclosure, there is an amazing intersection that is strangely reminiscent of Star Korndor or whatever one of those far-flung Star Wars planets is called, with all of these funny three-wheeled carts zipping around, which have the engine and front wheel housed in the same cylindrical compartment. Somehow these guys driving their carts loaded with fish manage not to hit each other--or any tourists--and eat ice cream cones or smoke cigarettes at the same time.

Tsukiji being Tsukiji, the best sushi in the world can be had right around the corner at 6:30 in the morning. But we just got off the plane, so who cares what time it is!