--- title: You Can Now Bathe With Ramen Noodles description: The ramen craze just went one step further canonical: https://time.com/3828034/ramen-noodles-bath/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-20T12:36:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:55.018Z og:title: You Can Now Bathe With Ramen Noodles og:description: The ramen craze just went one step further og:url: https://time.com/3828034/ramen-noodles-bath/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Now Bathe With Ramen Noodles twitter:description: The ramen craze just went one step further twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Can Now Bathe in Ramen Noodles by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 20, 2015 12:36 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 20, 2015 12:36 PM UTC Ramen is one of the latest food crazes to sweep America, but when it comes to the noodle dish the Japanese don’t mess around. Yunessan Spa House in Hakone, a south-eastern town in Japan, is now offering ramen baths for its clientele. The bath, consisting of ramen pork broth and synthetic noodles, allegedly helps improve patrons’ skin. Ichiro Furuya, the owner of the spa, claims, “Lately people are very concerned about having beautiful skin, and they know the effect of collagen, which is contained in our pork-based broth. At this bath, everybody can have fun and take advantage of the healthy elements of ramen noodles.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3828034/ramen-noodles-bath/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3828034/ramen-noodles-bath/"},"headline":"You Can Now Bathe in Ramen Noodles","datePublished":"2015-04-20T12:36:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:55.018Z","description":"The ramen craze just went one step further","url":"https://time.com/3828034/ramen-noodles-bath/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Japan","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3828034/ramen-noodles-bath/","name":"You Can Now Bathe in Ramen Noodles"}}]}] ```