MILLIONAIRE CATCH: Bluefin Tuna Sells for Record Price in Japan’s New Year Auction – Sushi Chain Owner Pays Over $3 Million for ‘Good Looking’ Fish
Kiyomura Corp owner will serve millionaire fish at standard prices nationwide.
Tokyo’s New Year fish auction is a traditional event held in the Toyosu fish market, the biggest in the world.
On Monday (5) the owner of a Japanese sushi chain shattered all records by paying $3.24 million (510 million yen) for a single bluefin tuna.
Yes, you read it right: over 3 million dollars.
Fox Business reported:
“The top bidder for the prized 536-pound tuna was Kiyomura Corp., the Tokyo-based operator of popular sushi restaurant chain Sushi Zanmai. The bid broke Kiyomura’s previous record of $2.1 million (333.6 million yen) in 2019.
Kiyomura owner Kiyoshi Kimura told reporters that he did not expect to pay so much for the fish, but ‘the price shot up before you knew it’.”
A Japanese sushi restaurant bid $3.24 million (510 million yen) for a single bluefin tuna, the highest price ever paid, at the annual New Year auction at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market https://t.co/qhK9vTK2CU pic.twitter.com/a6BnLuyRjb
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