There’s a ramen museum in Yokohama. You don’t go for the musuem, but for the ramen shops. The basement’s set up as an arcade in the fashion of 1950’s Tokyo. The best noodle shops in Japan have branches set up here. You buy a ticket from a machine by the entrance to a shop, hand the ticket to the wait staff, who show you to a table, and a few moments later a bowl of ramen’s set before you.
Now I hope you know there’s more to ramen than Cup o’ Noodles (but everyones who’s ever been a poor student should honor the memory of Ando-san.)
This is from Keyaki, a shop from Sapporo. The broth is miso based, with garlic. That’s shredded onion on top. It’s rich, and the broth holds on to the curly noodles. There’s ground pork, mushroom, and carrot in there as well.
Eating excellent ramen in Yokohama, made by a branch of a shop from Sapporo, in a replica of 1950’s Tokyo, while the radio in the shop plays the Beatles, and you’re one of the two westerners in the building, that’s awesome.
To get there: take the JR Yokohama line to Shin-Yokohama. Take the north exit from the station. Head two short blocks (you’re heading towards the football stadium) and turn left, go another short block and turn right. The ramen museum’s on the left. They charge 300 JPY for admission. 900-1,000 JPY for a bowl of ramen. It gets busy at lunchtime.
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