Japan has some hihoukans, however, U.S. has only one hihoukan in NY. I just happened to drop off at hihoukan when I went to NY. U.S. has shorter history than Japan, so their exhibits had little folklore feature unlike Japanese hihoukan. In…

I wanna eat ramen. I wanna eat gyudon----. So I decided to go to New York City on Sunday. I took a night bus which arrived at NY at 5am. The bus arrived so early that most of stores were closed. So I went to Central Park. Many New Yorkers …

Bunch of beer geeks were coming to this town for Brew Expo today! I also went there. Microbreweries in U.S. are much more popular than those in Japan. So we can have a expo with lots of microbreweries. Actually, more than 30 of microbrewer…

Last Saturday, I could buy newest Japanese comics at Otakon. Although their price ($5.50) was expensive than the price in Japan (\400), I was very lucky because there were only 2 ways to buy Japanese books. One is to buy from amazon.co.jp,…

To tell the truth, the reason I went to Baltimore is to attend Otakon 2007. Otakon is A CONVENTION OF OTAKU, BY OTAKU, FOR OTAKU. More than 20000 people are coming here! Yes, this is the 2nd largest otaku convention in the U.S. (largest co…

I went to Baltimore on Saturday. Baltimore is on the Atlantic Ocean, seafood (especially crab) is nice! In addition, there are interesting vehicles named "Duck". "Duck" is a amphibious vehicles which were developed by U.S. Army in WW II. O…

These days, we got an air-conditioning failure. Our office are incredibly hot! So, I sometimes go to University Creamery to eat icecream. Our creamery is famous in the U.S. because the founder of Haagen-Dazs trained here! I don't know exac…

In Japan, I sometimes travel like this: Take a train, rent a car. However, I traveled in opposite way yesterday: Rent a car, Take trains. In addition, rent-a-car office in this town are closed on Sunday, I had to go to airport to rent a ca…

Now we are having "Festival of Art" in State College. This is the biggest festival in this town. Many artists are coming to this town, and they sell their products at small stall. Streets are filled with hundreds of stalls, so it looks lik…

I caught a bad summer cold. I had no vomit nor diarrhea, but I had a little fever (~99F), terrible cough, and throat pain for a week. I heard that hospital in university provided free medical service, so I decided to go there. When I went …

I went to Harrisburg, the capital city of Pennsylvania, in order to join the brewery tour. Harrisburg has 2 breweries, one is Troegs Brewing Company, the other is Appalachian Brewing Company. Troegs has a brewery tour, on the other hand, A…

July 4th is a holiday in U.S. as Independence Day. So there were many events today. When I went to activity area, there were many stalls. They were selling french fries, icecreams, tacos, and drinks. An interesting stall sold refill-free d…

Yesterday I rode a bicycle again. This time I went to "RB Winter State Park" to get a mineral water from the mineral spring, "Boiling Spring". On my half way to Boiling Spring, I met an Amish buggy and we had a car(?) chase. Horse ran fast…