2 Nights and One Busy Work Day in Tokyo

Anyone who knows me, knows how much I LOVE Tokyo. I do. I think it's the best city in the world (apart from Melbourne). I was really happy that on my work trip I was in Tokyo for 2 nights. Although the daytime was filled with work, the night times were all mine!

One of my friends from Melbourne, who I used to do Japanese lessons with is in Japan for a few months working, so I hopped on a peak hour train to head to the fancy Roppongi area to meet him. We decided to check out a temporary beer garden, the Yona Yona Beer Garden, for some food, drinks and a catch up. It was actually a chilly night in Tokyo, which is strange for summer, and awesome. Because I had to work the next day though it was only a short night out, unlike the crazy all you can drink messiness we got into when we met up in Tokyo a couple of months earlier!  

The next day was all about work. We were due to visit the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Tokyo, but due to a scheduling mix-up we arrived an hour early. This meant we were left waiting around for an hour so I decided to use the opportunity to wander some random Tokyo backstreets. 

Because i'm not from a science background, sometimes all the science talk is way over my head, however the lab tours we went on at the Institute of Medical Science were really cool. We got to see this awesome bio bank and when they were taking samples out of the super cold storage containers filled with liquid nitrogen, I couldn't help imagining that scene in Jurassic Park. You know the one.