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Motorbike-sized tuna sold to Tokyo sushi restaurateurs for $1.3m
Sushi restaurateurs in Tokyo say they have paid 207m yen ($1.3m; £1m) for a bluefin tuna which is about the size and weight of a motorbike. The sale is the second highest price ever paid at the annual new year auction at Toyosu Fish Market in the Japanese capital.
Atlantic bluefin tuna sold for $1.3 million in Tokyo auction
Most expensive tuna ever sold at auction. At 333.6 million yen ($3.1 million USD at the time), the 612-pound bluefin tuna sold to the “Tuna King” Kiyoshi Kimora in 2019 holds the record for the most expensive tuna ever auctioned.
Tuna fetches over $1.3 million at New Year auction in Japan
A bluefin tuna was sold for $1,316,835 (207 million yen) on Sunday (January 5), marking the second-highest bid at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market's annual auction since its inception in 1999, according to market organizers.
Buyer splashes out $1.3m for Tokyo new year tuna
The top bidder at a Tokyo fish market said they paid $1.3 million for a tuna on Sunday, the second highest price ever paid at an annual prestigious new year auction.It is the second highest price paid at the opening auction of the year in Tokyo's main fish market since comparable data started being collected in 1999.
Tuna "as fat as a cow" goes for $1.3 million at auction in Japan
A massive bluefin tuna on Sunday sold for some $1.3 million at the first auction of the season at Tokyo's popular fish market, the second-highest ever achieved.
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Tokyo auction sets $1.3 million price for 608-pound tuna, second highest in history
"The first tuna is something meant to bring in good fortune," Onodera official Shinji Nagao told reporters after the auction.
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