Chicken Ramen mascot Hiyoko-chan featured on manhole covers english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 14:30 | All, JapanA western Japanese city known as the birthplace of instant noodles is displaying manhole covers featuring Hiyoko-chan, the mascot of instant noodle Chicken Ramen, in front of the city's popular cup noodles museum.
Hiyoko-chan, a popular character of one of the mainstay noodles produced by Nissin Foods Holdings Co., is also a "tourism ambassador" of the city.
The manhole covers were produced to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the city's incorporation as a municipality and to promote the ninth Manhole Summit slated for Oct. 19 in the city.
In the city, Nissin Foods founder Momofuku Ando invented Chicken Ramen, the world's first instant noodle product, in 1958 in a shed he built in his backyard.
(Undated photo shows manhole covers featuring Hiyoko-chan, the mascot of instant noodle Chicken Ramen.)