Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama with Kids: Making Your Own Cup

TL;DR

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At a Glance

Location	Shinko, Naka-ku, Yokohama (Minato Mirai waterfront)
Nearest stations	Minatomirai Line: Minatomirai Station or Bashamichi Station, about 8 minutes on foot. JR or Yokohama Municipal Subway: Sakuragicho Station, about 12 minutes on foot
Hours	10:00 to 18:00, last entry 17:00
Closed	Tuesdays. When Tuesday is a public holiday, the museum opens that day and closes the following day instead. Also closed over the New Year period
Entry	Adults (university students and older) ¥500 · High school students and younger free
My CUPNOODLES Factory	¥500 per cup, one cup per person. The museum estimates about 45 minutes; the advance ticket page suggests allowing 45 to 60
Chicken Ramen Factory	Elementary school students ¥600 · Junior high and older ¥1,200. Reservation required
CUPNOODLES Park (indoor play area)	¥500 for 30 minutes. Ages 3 through elementary school, 90cm and taller
Our visit	September 2026, a rainy Saturday, with our 4-year-old twins

Confirm current hours and prices on the official Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama site before you go.

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Is It Worth It?

Short answer: yes, for the My CUPNOODLES Factory.

We went on a Saturday in September 2026 with our twins at 4. The museum mixes exhibits on the history of instant noodles, a cup-making workshop, a noodle-making workshop for older kids, an indoor play area, and a food floor. For our family, the cup-making workshop on the 3rd floor was the main event, and it was the part we’d go back for.

For our 4-year-old twins: the 2nd-floor exhibits, which show past products and the story behind instant noodles, didn’t hold their attention much. We adults found more to look at there than they did. The 3rd-floor factory was a different story. Sitting at the table drawing on the cups and coloring them in, with everyone talking about what to draw, turned out to be more fun than we expected.

We haven’t tried the Chicken Ramen Factory or the CUPNOODLES Park play area ourselves, so we can’t speak to those firsthand.

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Booking: Get the Ticket with a Timed Factory Slot

You don’t need to book just to enter the museum. For the My CUPNOODLES Factory, there are two ways in:

1. Online in advance: an entry ticket that includes a factory slot at a set time (¥1,000 for adults, which covers entry plus one cup, and ¥500 for elementary school age and younger). Tickets for the following month go on sale at 10:00 on the 1st of each month and are sold until midnight the day before, unless they sell out earlier. You can only use the factory during the time slot you booked
2. On the day: a numbered ticket for the factory, first come, first served. Once the day’s tickets run out, reception closes

We bought the ticket with a timed slot the day before, for a Saturday visit. On arrival, we checked in at the ticket machines on the 1st floor, then climbed a long staircase up into the museum. When our time came, we barely had to queue before picking up our blank cups and heading to the drawing tables.

Families without a timed slot can still get in by queuing for a numbered ticket. On our visit, which seemed like a relatively quiet day, that line was around 30 minutes. With two 4-year-olds, not having to stand in it made a real difference to how the rest of the day went.

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Inside the My CUPNOODLES Factory

It runs in a set order:

1. Draw on your cup. Everyone gets a blank cup and sits at a round table with pens. Our kids drew and colored, and the four of us ended up drawing together while talking about what to put on each cup. There’s no right or wrong way to do it, which made it easy for our twins to join in at 4.

2. Choose your soup and toppings. Next, you take your cup to a counter. The four soups are the original Cup Noodle, Curry, Seafood, and Chili Tomato, and you pick four toppings from 12 options. Staff at the counter ask what you’d like, add the soup and toppings you chose, and seal the lid. The signs on the tables list the allergens in each soup and topping in Japanese and English, which helps if your child has allergies.

3. Package it to take home. On our September visit, the finished cup went into a bag that you inflate with air to protect it, with a cord so it can hang around your neck. It’s a small touch, and a surprisingly cute one. From October 1, 2026, the museum switched to a limited-edition fold-up box package in place of the air bag, at no extra charge, for 150,000 cups while they last.

The cup is a souvenir to take home and cook later. We made ours at home the next day.

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Food: The 4th Floor or Next Door

The museum’s 4th floor has NOODLES BAZAAR, which serves half-size bowls of noodle dishes from different countries for ¥500 each, plus a mini Chicken Ramen for ¥250, desserts, and drinks. It’s a small area with a short list of options, and outside food and drinks can’t be brought into the museum.

We ate at Yokohama World Porters, the shopping mall right next door, which has a much wider choice of restaurants, and eating there worked well for us. The museum allows same-day re-entry.

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Practical Tips for Families

Strollers

Strollers aren’t allowed inside the CUPNOODLES Park play area for safety reasons, and one that doesn’t fit in a coin locker can’t be checked there either, so a compact, foldable stroller is the easier choice. There’s also a long staircase from the entrance area up into the museum.

Nursing Room and Diaper Changing

There’s a nursing room on the 1st floor, and multipurpose toilets on the 1st and 4th floors can be used for diaper changes.

Chicken Ramen Factory for Older Kids

If you’re visiting with elementary school kids, the Chicken Ramen Factory is reservation-only. Bookings open at 10:00 three months before the date and close at 18:00 the day before. Participants work in pairs, and kids in grades 1 to 3 need to be paired with someone of junior high age or older.

Rainy Days

The museum itself works fine in the rain, but most of the area around it is outdoors. It was raining on our visit, which limited what we could do afterward (see below).

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Getting There: The S-Train on Weekends

We went on the S-Train, an all-reserved-seat train that runs on weekends and public holidays straight through the Seibu, Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin, Tokyu Toyoko, and Minatomirai lines, as far as Motomachi-Chukagai. Heading toward Yokohama, you can board at Shinjuku-sanchome or Shibuya (Ikebukuro is drop-off only in this direction), and it stops at Minatomirai Station. We used it to avoid the crowds heading to Yokohama on a Saturday, and having guaranteed seats for the whole ride is a big plus with small kids. For seat ticket prices and how the S-Train compares with JR Green Cars and other reserved-seat trains, see our guide to reserved-seat trains in Tokyo with kids.

A few things we learned on our ride:

• We bought seat tickets on Smooz, Seibu’s online booking site, without registering for an account. Without an account, the purchase has to be completed at least 10 minutes before departure, so get them with time to spare. If you board without one, the onboard price is ¥200 higher than buying in advance. On our ride, a staff member was walking through the train selling seat tickets for cash only; tell them where you got on and where you’re getting off

• Preschoolers normally ride free with a fare-paying adult, but a preschooler using their own reserved seat needs both a child seat ticket and a child fare ticket. At the Tokyo Metro station we used, we could only pay cash for the child fare ticket

• If your kids want to look out the window, avoid the seats right beside the doors. In our experience they have no window, or one that’s hard to see out of, so check the seat map when booking. Seats in the front and rear cars, where you can see into the driver’s cab, go quickly

• Only one door per car opens for boarding, so check where your door will be on the platform beforehand

• The toilet is in car 4, so a seat in a nearby car helps if that’s a concern

There were a couple of evening S-Train departures back toward Tokyo on our Saturday, but Motomachi-Chukagai is the end of the line and Minatomirai is the next stop, and we could get a seat on a regular train anyway. We didn’t book one for the return. Without the S-Train, regular Tokyu Toyoko Line trains from Shibuya also run straight through to Minatomirai Station.

Suica and Pasmo work on all of these lines for the regular fare; for how child fares and IC cards work, see our guide to using IC cards in Japan with kids. For train travel in general, see our guide to navigating Tokyo’s train system with kids.

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Recommended Route

Minatomirai Station → Cup Noodles Museum (timed factory slot) → lunch at World Porters → Yokohama Cosmo World

1. Book the entry ticket with a timed factory slot online, by midnight the day before at the latest
2. Walk about 8 minutes from Minatomirai Station (Bashamichi is about the same) and check in at the 1st-floor ticket machines
3. Look around the 2nd-floor exhibits before your factory time, if your kids are interested
4. Make your cups at the 3rd-floor My CUPNOODLES Factory
5. Have lunch at Yokohama World Porters next door
6. Finish at Yokohama Cosmo World, a short walk away, if the weather allows

Total time: half a day with preschoolers.

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Honest Verdict

For our 4-year-old twins, the Cup Noodles Museum Yokohama came down to one floor. The history exhibits were for us, and the food floor was small, but drawing on the cups was something the whole family did together, and the kids came home with a cup they’d made themselves.

What made the day work was booking the timed factory slot the day before and getting there on the S-Train with guaranteed seats. If you’re coming on a weekend, we’d do both again.

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Nearby: Cosmo World, Red Brick Warehouse, and Chinatown

Yokohama Cosmo World, the amusement park with the big Ferris wheel, is a short walk from the museum. Entry is free, and you pay for each ride individually, so you can stop by for one or two rides. After lunch we went over, but because of the rain, the rides we could actually use were limited, and we ended up riding the merry-go-round once and heading home.

With elementary school kids and more time, the Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse or a trip further on to Yokohama Chinatown are other options if your family has the time and energy.

If your kids like hands-on activities like this one, KidZania Tokyo takes the idea much further, with a full day of job experiences.

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Information checked: 2026/10