Do you love noodle soup"

Do you enjoy eating ramen"

Then you have to check out the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum!
Visited: October 26th 2014

Access to the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
The Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum (??????????) is located in Kanagawa Prefecture (map) and makes a nice 1/2-day trip from Tokyo. It takes about 15 mins to get there from Yokohama, about 50 mins from Tokyo. The museum is a 10 minute walk from Shin-Yokohama Station.
 

What Awaits You There
The museum opened in March 1994 as the first “food-themed amusement park” worldwide. It is dedicated to Japanese ramen noodle soup.
While ramen is a very popular Japanese noodle dish it was originally introduced from China.

Maybe you know that there are various regional types of ramen in Japan. Usually you can’t eat all of them in one place and have to travel to the region that serves the soup if you want to enjoy it.
The great thing about the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum is that you can eat a bowl of ramen from Kyushu and Hokkaido on the very same day.

The museum houses famous ramen restaurant branches such as Ide Shoten, Hachiya or Fukuchan.

The food is served on the two basement floors where you’ll be thrown back into the late 50s of Tokyo’s Shitamachi Town. There are nine ramen restaurants, each offering ramen from a different region of Japan.

If you wish to try more than one bowl, I highly recommend the “mini ramen” version. It’s cheaper and...