Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum

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The Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum (新横浜ラーメン博物館, Shin-Yokohama Rāmen Hakubutsukan^?) is a food amusement park located in the Shin-Yokohama district of Kohoku Ward, Yokohama, Japan. (The "u" in "Raumen", referring to ramen, is intentionally spelled that way.)

The museum is devoted to the Japanese ramen noodle soup and features a large recreation of Tokyo in the year Shōwa 33 (1958), the year instant noodles were invented. Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants from Kyūshū to Hokkaidō. The current list includes Sumire, Katsumaru, Genkotsuya, Rokkakuya, Ippudou, and Komurasaki among others, but new ramen shops are being added on a regular basis. There are also large collections of ramen bowls, cooking utilities and instant-ramen packages.

The project started in 1991 with the goal of revitalizing the former boom town Shin-Yokohama. The museum opened on March 3, 1994.

In the museum patrons can make their own instant ramen to take home. There is a Nissin Cup Noodles factory where you can design the packaging, choose the ramen flavor, and pick up to four ingredients.