Tourists in Tokyo are temporarily banned for one month from setting foot inside the Tsukiji fish market while a tuna fish auction is in process. The Tsukiji fish market is the world’s largest wholesale market and everyday thousands of tourists pass through the market. Recently drunken tourists have been stumbling to the early-morning auctions directly after a night on the town and have been caught confusing the subtle hand signals used for bidding, and they’ve even hugging & kissing the fish. The recent activity, especially the drunken fish kissing, has prompted the the city government to step in and institute the one-month ban preventing tourists from visiting the auctions. So a word for the wise, if in Tokyo this month, please go home and sleep off your drunken stupor before commencing the site-seeing.

via Weird Asian News