Morning commute to Roppongi HIlls from Minami Aoyama

Hello all and Good Afternoon Tokyo time. Ever come from a place where you take the car everywhere and drive yourself 20 steps away from your office door? Well that doesn't really happen in downtown Tokyo. This morning the bus was exceptionally crowded on my way to my office in Roppongi Hills. Our company recently moved to Roppongi, an area known for a great nightlife as well as foreign companies. In fact, companies such as Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Google, and other well known US and European brand names base their Tokyo presence out of Roppongi Hills.

So, I live 3 stops away from my Roppongi Hills office in this area called Minami Aoyama. The bus stop to be exact is Aoyama Gakuin Chutobumae. Which is the local University in Aoyama. I live off of Roppongi dori (street) which is a major thruway in Tokyo. The bus that I take comes from Shibuya station so every morning and evening its very crowded as commuters pile in and out of the inner circle of Tokyo for work. My commute to work only takes a few minutes and many Japanese locals are very envious of the short commute, but unlike many of them I don't have a family so I only need 26 square meters to live in.

My stop is the first stop on its route and as you can see, this morning was very crowded. As you can tell, I am in the left-hand corner of the bus (the only one allowed to fit in as only one got out at my stop) the driver is on the right-hand side unlike the United States. It's only packed like this for one stop though as about 50% pile out at Minami-Aoyama. Five minutes later, I am at my stop: Roppongi Hills.

Enjoy!