So last week was a blast. I went on a 'business trip' to Tokyo since everyone in my lab was going to the IBSB 2007 bioinformatics conference hosted by Tokyo University. The conference was held from Tuesday to Thursday so naturally I took Monday and Friday off to complete the week. Thanks to Brian, I had a place to stay and on the weekends I got to see pretty much the entire Tokyo crew.. fun times. Here are some pictures before I left for Tokyo, involving a homemade katsu curry meal and a lecture at Kyoto University by nobel laureate and Stanford Medical School Professor Arthur Kornberg. The esteemed old fellow talked a lot about polyphosphate kinase (PPK) among other things.. I then proceeded to have some excellent sushi with Megan, Raunaq, and Nick.
I arrived in Yokohama on Saturday. The original plan was to stay with Daryl in Yokohama and explore the city (second largest city by population in Japan) on the weekend but there was the Sumida River Fireworks Festival in Tokyo that day so I ended up going into the capital anyways. Daryl and I had some delicious ramen at the Yokohama Ramen Museum near Shin-Yokohama station. The museum was quite small but featured various types of ramen from across Japan. The interior was also designed to resemble the streets of Japan in the 1970s (I think..).
in progress....
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