Friday, January 12, 2018

Yokohama - Cup Noodles Museum


The next stop after Kamakura was Yokohama and the Cup Noodles Museum. 

This is the Yokohama Bay Bridge, a two-level suspension bridge which connects Yokohama to Tokyo. 
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I couldn't get over the amount of vehicles that were being transported at this port. 
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Not sure if they were coming or going, but choke, yah.
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I tried to get a good photo of all the cranes in the bay, but this is the best that I could do. 
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This giant ferris wheel is part of Yokohama Cosmoworld, an amusement park right across from the Cup Noodles Museum. It takes 15 minutes for the ferris wheel to complete a full rotation and offers a wide view of the area. Too bad it wasn't on our itinerary. 
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To be honest . . . Cup Noodles Museum? . . . they built a museum about Cup Noodles? I couldn't understand the attraction.
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The ground floor was huge and spacious with lots of breathing room . . . unusual, I thought.
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It was a different story upstairs in the My Cup Noodles Factory where you can create your own packaging. So this is where the crowd was. Aha!
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This is the History Cube which tells the story, via displayed package samples, of the growth of inventor Momofuku Ando's instant ramen . . .
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from 1958 . . .
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to present day. 
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This is the Noodles Bazaar where for 300 yen each, you can sample noodles from around the world.
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We got noodles from Italy, China and Indonesia. Tasted just okay.
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It was good to experience the museum since I'd never been there before. I found it pretty amazing to see how busy (and profitable) such a common-themed (boring) tourist attraction could be. But . . . and I think you know this already . . . once is enough.

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

I used to eat cup noodles in my younger days...but now no can. But like you I don't understand the "attraction" to see a museum on Instant Ramen. Unreal the amount of cars! I used to like the ferries where in my youth, but now no can handle...motion sickness. LOL

Izsmom

jalna said...

LOL, Izsmom. Once me, Leslie and Erick (the Photog) rode a ferris wheel thinking we could get good shots from up high of the fairgrounds. Trying to take pictures while going up and down in a swaying seat made me so nauseous. I feel seasick just thinking about it. And yah, I think that whoever created the Cup Noodle Museum could probably market just about anything successfully.

Mokihana said...

Love the photos!!! Playing catch-up on your blog.

And yeah, unreal the amount of cars!

jalna said...

Howzit, Moki!!

Cloudia said...

Really interesting. See, Hawaii people get this...

Anonymous said...

j: oh you found the breeding grounds of Cranes and little trucks. Mystery solved! That museum is indeed spacious for Japan but kinda meh to be a tribute to cup of noodles...not the most mysterious of all things in the universe but the savior of broke and hungry college students -N

Chet Colson said...

We visited the museum prior to embarking on the Diamond Princess to Hokkaido.Yup,don't understand the attraction,too.We ate at the food court,I had Thai,not bad for a tourist trap.

Honolulu Aunty said...

Choke! Too high, too many cars, too much ramen for me.

K and S said...

one station from where we live is where the inventor lived, so we also have a cup noodle museum. I agree once is enough, but we usually take people who visit us to see it, so we’ve been there more than once:)

jalna said...

Amazing yah, Cloudia.

True dat, N!!

Chet, very successful tourist trap!

LOL, Aunty.

Kat, I watched a documentary about the inventor. It was interesting.

Leslie's pics said...

glad i never went!!! The ramen museum was junk too!....ugh! I'm lucky I didn't hurl on that ferris wheel. That was baaaad.

jalna said...

Les, I'M lucky you didn't hurl on the ferris wheel.

Kay said...

I recognize that bridge! What a fun museum!
I wrote about the false alarm for Monday's post. Did you go into your closet?

jalna said...

Kay, I had somewhere to go and decided that since no sirens came on, that it was a false alarm and just went on my way.

DNakamaru said...

Looks like a cool place to me!

jalna said...

Dean, it was crowded so I think that a lot of people thought so too!