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 nickname "Ra-Haku" shortens Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. Inside, staff act as residents of the recreated 1958 town, which is divided into Tsurukame, Renge and Naruto districts. Komurasaki from Kumamoto has served there since the museum opened in 1994, while guest shops rotate every three months to a year.
The museum sits a five-minute walk from the north exit of Shin-Yokohama Station, or one minute from exit 8 of the subway and Tokyu/Sotetsu lines. Adult admission is 450 yen, 100 yen for schoolchildren and for visitors aged 60 and over, and free for preschoolers and disabled visitors with a companion. Every shop, including the museum shop, lies beyond the ticket gate, so entry is required to use any facility.
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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