Although I have been living in Japan for quite some time for now, but believe me when I say this is my first time visiting Cup Noodles Museum and I was quite surprised because the entrance fee is so affordable!! It is only 500 yen for one person!

This museum is quite spacious for me and has many options for you to experience, such as My Cup Noodles Factory, Momofuku theater, cup noodles park for kids, instant noodle history cube, noodle bazaar food court, and many more. You can visit them all if you have enough time to spend here.

Next, it is the time to select my soup seasoning (here we can choose 1 seasoning from 4 seasonings available) and up to 4 toppings from among 12 varieties. It means we can create a new cup noodles flavor suitable with our tastebud. Cup noodles goals!!

For the seasoning, I chose to add seafood flavor because I love the seafood stock flavor, and for the topping I chose dried ebi, cheese block, negi, and hiyakko that shaped like little chick.

After strolling around and creating my own cup noodle, I decided to find something to eat. At the 4th floor, there is Noodles Bazaar called World Noodles Road. This place serves every kind of noodles from Asia such as Vietnamese pho, tom yam goong noodles from Thailand, Malaysian laksa, Korean cold ramen, Indonesian mie goreng, and some other noodles from another countries. So many different kinds of noodles with different flavors that probably will suit almost every visitors tastebuds and preference, from spicy to non spicy, sweet, sour, or savory.

You can order your meal from the vending machine here. First, just simply input the money, then choose whatever meal you want to have, after that the vending machine will print out your order ticket and return your change. After that give the ticket to the staff so that they can start preparing your ordered meal. Then you can just wait for your order to be served.


For me, I decided to order mie goreng to cure my cravings for Indonesian food.  It's been a while since I last ate mie goreng, and it turned out quite good!! Tastes pretty authentic though it can't replace the real Indonesian Mie Goreng, but when you miss the taste, this is pretty decent meal. They even used Indonesian Kecap (Soy Sauce). The mie goreng costs 300 yen, which is quite affordable I can say. If you want to eat mie goreng in Tokyo, it can cost you around 900-1000 yen at a restaurant and some of them taste more like yakisoba or Japanese fried noodle than mie goreng.

After finished with the mie goreng, I decided to stroll around to find dessert. One thing that caught my eye is this cup noodle flavored soft serve ice cream! There are two flavors available, classic and curry flavors. Such an unique idea that can only be thought of by Japanese!

Overall I had a pretty fun experience here in Cup Noodles Museum! And I would like to recommend this place to everyone while visiting Yokohama, because I think this place is one of the highlight in this city. This also can be a suitable option for a family trip because it is very affordable and fun for kids, even for adults. You can spare around 3 until 4 hours to explore this place. Also it could be a good recommendation for you if the weather is not really good outside.

HOW TO GET THERE?

HOW TO GET TO KAMAKURA?

KIMONO AND RICKSHAW

The perks of choosing rickshaw ride is that the rickshaw rider really knows well area around Kamakura. He brought me to this pretty hidden spot, and took the picture above just by using phone! Too Pretty! Can you believe that this picture is taken just by using phone?? Blue sky, red bridge, with sun shines through the trees, what a perfect combination! Lucky me, my rickshaw rider was pretty good at taking pictures.

HAKONE OPEN AIR MUSEUM