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Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum, Yokohama, Japan
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Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum, Yokohama, Japan

When it comes to the world's weirdest museums, Japan takes the lead with this loving monument to ramen. Here, noodle history comes alive in displays of vintage packages, chopsticks and bowls, a reconstruction of the first ramen dish (reportedly invented by a 17th-century samurai) and a ramen-flavored historical theme park set in a painstakingly reconstructed 1958 version of small Tokyo neighborhood where ramen was just starting to gain in popularity.

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