Suzuhiro Kamaboko Museum

Way more than you need to know about Japanese fish cakes, plus hands-on cooking lessons (Odawara)

Food and Agriculture Museum

Explore agricultural history, sake-making and Japan's biggest collection of stuffed roosters (Tokyo Setagaya-ku)

Cup Noodles Museum

Make your own cup noodles and explore the world-noodles food court (Yokohama)

Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum

A combination museum, restaurant complex and mini-theme park, with eight ramen shops to try (Yokohama)

Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum

Kobe's biggest sake museum, built in an old brewery building (Kobe)

Kikumasamune Sake Brewery Museum

This compact museum features a rice-polishing mill run by a waterwheel (Kobe)

Sawanotsuru Sake Museum

Traditional sake production and distribution are the focus of this charming museum (Kobe)

Beer Museum Yebisu

Learn about beer making and the history of Sapporo Beer (Tokyo Ebisu)

Instant Ramen Museum

More cup-noodle fun at this instant-noodle specialty museum (Osaka Prefecture)

Ishikawa Brewery

Take an English-language tour of a sake brewery (Tokyo Fussa)

Sake brewery fashion watch

Sake brewers dress up for festivals and tastings around the country

Budo-no-Oka Center

A wine-tasting cave with an open bar (Yamanashi)

Kappabashi Market

Where to buy kitchen knives, industrial-sized ovens and those cute plastic food models (Tokyo Asakusa)

Osaka restaurant signs

Take in some of the stranger sights on the streets of Dotonbori

Namja Gyoza Stadium

A fun dumpling-focused food court (Tokyo Ikebukuro)

Ichibanya sembei shop

Watch sembei crackers being made, and choose from 100 flavors (Tokyo Asakusa)

Meatrea

Japan's first meat theme park, with a mini meat museum (Tokyo Minami-Osawa)