CupNoodles Museum Osaka Ikeda
カップヌードルミュージアム 大阪池田
A free museum at the birthplace of instant noodles, where you can design your own cup packaging and pick ingredients to make one unique CupNoodles.
In 1958, Momofuku Ando invented the world’s first instant noodles, “Chicken Ramen,” in a small shed at his home in Ikeda, Osaka, where this museum now stands. Admission is free, and the museum features a replica of his research shed and display walls of instant noodles through the years. The most popular attraction, “My CupNoodles Factory,” lets you decorate your own cup, choose soup bases and toppings, and seal it on site to take home (about 500 yen per cup; holiday crowds must queue for tickets). The Chicken Ramen noodle workshop, where you knead the dough yourself, requires advance online booking. Open 9:30 to 16:30, closed on Tuesdays. It is a 5-minute walk from Ikeda Station on the Hankyu Takarazuka Line, and about 20 minutes from Umeda.
Opening hours
09:30–16:30, closed Tuesdays
Nearby sights
- Minoo Park & Minoo Falls
- Katsuō-ji
- Expo '70 Commemorative Park
- Church of the Light
- Hanshin Koshien Stadium
- Umeda Sky Building
- HEP FIVE Ferris Wheel
- Osaka Museum of Housing and Living