This past Tuesday, I journeyed out to the famous Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. (If you follow the link, click on the icon in the center and it will display the guide book in English. Otherwise, go to this link for an explanation on the "Tokyo Food Page".) For an entrance fee of 300JPY you get to walk through a very short exhibit on how they make the ramen and all of the different kinds of ramen you can get all across Japan, then you enter the "Ramusement" section (seriously, the website actually uses that word...), which is where the photos were taken. Well worth the trip; it was definitely "ramusing."
Photos:
- Top: This is actually inside the building (the clouds are painted on the ceiling). The whole thing is set up to look like a town, just post-WWII, during the time ramen noodles were invented. We were standing at the top of the stairs looking down on the whole thing when I took this picture. All the "shops" at the bottom are actual ramen restaurants. My friend Emi and I ate at the one with the red sign in the bottom-right corner, which featured Kumamoto ramen that has garlic in the soup. Delicious!!
- Bottom left: This is what I would look like if I was a half-naked, middle-aged Japanese man. :)
- Bottom right: another view of the "streets" they have set up inside the museum.
