Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum, Food museum and theme park in Shin-Yokohama, Japan.
Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is a food museum and theme park in the Shin-Yokohama district of Japan, spreading across three floors with nine regional ramen restaurants set inside a recreated 1958 street scene. The shops cluster around a central alley lined with cobblestones, retro streetlamps, and storefronts styled after the late nineteen-fifties.
Industrialist Yoji Iwaoka opened the facility in March 1994 as Japan's first food-themed amusement park. The choice of 1958 for the street setting recalls the year Momofuku Ando invented instant noodles.
The name combines "raumen" (a play on the German word for "clearing out") with "ramen," reflecting a space where visitors sample bowls from different prefectures without leaving one building. Each shop inside prepares its broth and noodles according to recipes passed down in cities like Sapporo, Hakata, and Kitakata.
Visitors can buy tickets for mini portions at vending machines, allowing them to try several shops in one visit. Admission costs 380 yen for adults and 100 yen for children, with noodles purchased separately afterward.
The basement levels recreate a 1958 Tokyo streetscape, the year Momofuku Ando invented instant noodles. Lighting slowly cycles between day and dusk to produce the feeling of a full day passing.
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