Ein Museum. Das Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka

If you’re a hungry college student, perhaps you’d rather shoplift the instant ramen exhibits at this museum, rather than admire them. Osaka is actually the birthplace of ramen, where the noodle dish was invented in 1958. The first product was chicken ramen and it was invented in a research shed in Ikeda City, where the museum is located. The museum was opened in 1999 to chronicle the history of ramen and chronicle the significance of innovation at different stages of invention in general. Not only can you learn about the history of ramen, but you can make your own ramen with a variety of choose-your-own ingredients and then head over to the Handmade Chicken Ramen Hands-On Workshop to make the original noodle dish that started it all.