The museum is devoted to the Japanese ramen noodle soup and and features a large recreation of Tokyo in the year Showa 33 (1958)), the year instant noodles was invented. Within the museum are branches of famous ramen restaurants from Kyushu to Hokkaido. The current list includes Sumire, Katsumaru, Genkotsuya, Rokkakuya, Ippudou, and Komurasaki among others, but new ramen shops are being added on a regular basis. There are also large collections of ramen bowls, cooking utilities and instant-ramen packages.
The project started in 1991 with the goal of revitalizing the former boom town Shin-Yokohama. The museum opened on March 3, 1994.