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 Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
July 24th, 1998
I guess you'd have to count on a ramen museum in Japan. I wonder were the hamburger museum is in America. My friend Miyuki brought me here one weekend. It was really cool. Here are way too many pictures for a webpage.   
When we got there I had no idea what to expect so we entered and it looked like your typical non-art museum. Lots of cases with explanations and stuff.
Here are some of the implements used to strain the broth
Miyuki says this character is a famous ramen trademark in Japan.
This is a ramen cart. I haven't seen one in use but I'm sure I'll see one sooner or later.
A gajillion ramen bowls. This is about 1/6th of all the bowls on display.
Another famous ramen character. Here are various kinds of instant or semi instant ramen packages. The ones on the top left are from limited edition promotions. If you look closely the one on the back right is Arnold Swartzenegger (sp?)
They even had a ramen
video game. Your job is the eat your ramen faster than the other player. You
can also taunt the other player and throw things at him to slow him down.
   
And here's about a zillion
different packages of ramen. The other day I had UFO Curry Instant Ramen.
Pretty good for a $1.50.
     
Here are some different instant ramen noodle types. Can you tell the difference? 
The average package of instant ramen has 51 meters of noodles in it.
Okay. So I thought that was it but the real attraction of this place is in the basement. The bottom two floors are a recreation of old Tokyo I'm assuming around the 1950s or maybe earlier.
We decided to eat at the "special" shop which changes its style each week. This week it was Hokkaido style ramen. It was about a 30 minute wait.
On the main floor there was a festival style candy shop. You
could hear all the people saying "Nazukashii!" which means that it's nastolgic
and brings back good memories.
This huge thing is a
common vegatable added to ramen. It starts as the big pointy thing on the left and
through a faily complicated process ends up in your ramen like the stuff on the right.
  
Here are various ramen
noodles from different regions. This is more what fresh ramen looks like, the kind
you eat at a ramen store, vs the instant kind.
Before I came to Japan I don't think I
had any idea about all the different kinds of ramen. Now that I'm here I'm going to
have to try them all.
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