Instant noodles museum opens in Japan

Celebrating 40 years since the creation of the first snack, the museum displays the history of the noodle, taking visitors on a journey from its invention to its cultural influence within Japan and the rest of the world.

Up to 10,000sq m covers the museum grounds with visitors given the chance to create their own instant recipe from thousands of combinations at the My Cup Noodle Factory. Inside, visitors can get a taste of the restaurants that serve a variety of noodles.

A young fan of the noodles gets stuck in at the museum's noodle factory (Picture: Reuters)

During the opening of the museum, 500 people queued up to enter, including the former Japanese premier, Junichiro Koizumi.

The attraction has been aimed at both adults and children, with giant instant noodle play areas built inside the complex.

Children enjoyed the various exhibit apparatus (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

Nissin's founder Momofuku Ando invented the instant noodle snack, chicken ramen noodles, in 1958 after he saw customers lining up to buy soup noodles during pot-war Japan. 

Since that moment, the company and the food product has risen in popularity with millions of people purchasing the on-the-go meal across the world.

In 2005, Nissin was in the headlines for supplying vacuum packed instant noodles to a Japanese astronaut aboard a US space shuttle.

A little girl enjoys going through one of the walkways of the museums noodle-inspired play park (Picture: Reuters)

Nissin previously opened a museum in Osaka back in 1999, which saw great success amongst fans.

Japan continues to pay tribute to instant noodle food with its many other museums, including the Ramen noodle museum of Shinyokohama.