If that wasn’t enough, there’s also the beds, which are designed to look like udon noodles. On top of the beds are cushions shaped like the fried tofu and kamaboko that you find in Donbei’s instant noodle bowls. For those fortunate enough to stay in the room, it will feel like you are sleeping in the world of Donbei.
The special plan, a collaboration between Shinjuku Washington Hotel and Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd., will run until March 15. The hotel started taking reservations on Monday, January 27. It’s an exciting opportunity for fans of the popular bowl-shaped instant noodles series, that began in 1976 with Nissin’s Donbei Kitsune Udon. Nissin was founded 28 years earlier in Izumiotsu, Osaka, by Momofuku Ando, the man credited as the inventor of instant noodles. In 2021, the company announced that worldwide sales of it cup noodles had surpassed 50 billion units.