New Edo-inspired complex opens near Toyosu Market in Tokyo

Venue offers fresh cuisine from fish market, spa for bathers

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Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai, near Tokyo's Toyosu Market, draws big crowds on opening day, Feb. 1. The restaurants and spa are expected to draw 2.6 million visitors a year. (Photo by Masaaki Morioka)

MASAAKI MORIOKA, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- A new tourist attraction near Toyosu Market, Japan's largest fish market, opened in Tokyo on Thursday. The complex includes around 50 restaurants and a hot spring bath made to look like old Edo, as Tokyo was known before its opening to the West in the 19th century.

Toyosu Senkyaku Banrai is expected to attract 2.6 million visitors a year, and backers hope it will revitalize the formerly industrial Toyosu area, which until now has lacked tourist draws for more than five years after the opening of the market. On Thursday morning, as the gates opened, people flooded in, browsing the restaurants.

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