Unique Food Museums In Japan

Why do you travel? To visit far off places? To see the wonderful sights that are found world-wide? To visit the famous buildings and museums? To experience the different cultures? Perhaps you want to taste the very different foods that they prepare? If you plan on going to Japan here are two museums that are food based in what they offer.

These two food museums are in two very different cities, Yokohama and Kyoto. You will ove the country-0side as well as the friendly people.

Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum (Yokohama, Japan)

The Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum is for those who can't get enough of Japan's classic noodle dish. 

On the first floor there's an exhibition about the history of ramen that includes displays of traditional bowls alongside the more recent invention every college student is all too familiar with -- instant ramen. 

The two basement floors are a replica of Shitamachi (Tokyo's old town) and house nine restaurants, each of which serves up different regional varieties of ramen.

Highlight: A replica of the first ramen dish ever eaten. The consumer was a 17th-century samurai named Mito Komon.

Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum, 2-14-21 Shinyokohama, Kouhoku-ku, Yokohama

Udon Museum (Kyoto, Japan)

Another popular Japanese dish is the focus at this Kyoto museum, which allows visitors to find out more about the different varieties of Japanese wheat flour noodles. 

"There wasn't an udon restaurant where I could taste all the regional varieties, so I opened one," explains the founder Tomoaki Takaya. 

There are 35 different types of udon noodles, all of which can be seen in this cheeky museum. Each region in Japan has its own udon and many different ways of eating and enjoying it.

Highlight: The amazing wall-mounted display of steaming, udon-filled bowls.

Udon Museum, 238-2 Giommachi Kitagawa, Kyoto

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