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Daily 7am-4pm; www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au. Fish Market Light Rail; bus #443, #501; ferry to Pyrmont Bay Wharf. The Sydney Fish Market is only a five-minute walk from Darling Harbour's Maritime Museum straight down Pyrmont Bridge Road. A popular tourist attraction - second only to Tokyo's fish market in terms of variety - it's a busy, early-morning, multicultural spectacle, a gathering of the Sydney fishing fleet, cargo boats, fishermen and buyers. You need to visit early to see the high-tech, silent weekday auctions (the biggest is on Friday; the public viewing platform opens at 7am), where buyers log onto computer terminals to register their bids. Once a month an early-morning tour of the selling floor and a cookery class - making yourself a fishy breakfast - is offered by the Sydney Seafood School based here (2hr; $49.50 including ingredients, tuition and meal; tel 9552 2180). The fish market is well set up for throwing together an impromptu meal to be eaten picnic-style on waterfront tables overlooking Blackwattle Bay, or at nearby Wentworth Park: as well as the retail fish shops where you can take away oysters, prawns and cooked seafood, there's a bakery, deli, bottle shop and greengrocer. Alternatively, you can eat in at a cheaper-than-normal branch of Sydney's best-known fish restaurant , Doyles , an excellent sushi bar, or have dirt-cheap fish and chips or a post-clubbing coffee at the Italian Fish Market Cafe (Mon-Fri 4am-4pm, Sat & Sun 5am-5pm).
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