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27
Feb 2010

The Craziest Japanese Vending Machines!

Making an anchor of Sena's post about hamburger vending machines, I'm going to post here the craziest types of VMs I found through the internet. I got shocked when I read that Japan has over 5 million vending machines, and all of them have the most varied functions. Besides the most famous vending machines of candy, little toys and drinks, I found many weird products that can be purchased from them, like fish, rice, hot food and even underwears(!!!). Some brazilians would say: "Oh, it's such a laziness to have everything sold by machines. They just go there, press a button, put the cash in and they're done. Nothing more." Of course, I disagree. And that's why I'm gonna show some pictures of it. This is an Egg Vending Machine. Believe it or not, they say the eggs from there are farm fresh. What about giving a try?

   Similar to the Hot Coffee VMs we have, still really interesting. How about a hot ramen coming from this thing?
  May look like a washer, but this is a type of Toy Vending Machine. Cool huh?
  This is actually one of the most peculiar ones I've seen in this category. Looks really interesting to get your flowers like this. What intrigues me is if you get the flower by opening up the machine or if the flower is picked and thrown out like the drinks.
  If you wanna check more interesting vending machines I found a lot of them here. And after checking all this I respond to my fellow distrustful brazilians: "This isn't laziness, this is called technology." Comments are always welcomed. Cya.

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Posted by Eddie Li 
02
Nov 2009

The Hamburger Machine of Japan

“Nanikore Chin Hakkei” finds a restaurant in Tokyo’s Katsushika ward that has a hamburger vending machine: The vending machine sells hamburgers for 100 yen each. Upon inserting a single 100 yen coin, a hamburger quickly comes out of the machine. However, a second try fails to produce a hamburger. It turns out that it can only hold a single hamburger and is operated manually by the man who runs the store. If you want more than one burger, you’ve got to go inside and order it. After his restaurant got featured on TV for its weird vending machine, the owner installed a second manual vending machine that sells 300 yen “royal” burgers (normal burgers with some added tomato and bacon). If you want check it out for yourself, you can find it here on google maps:
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Posted by Eddie Li