A company called Apex (株式会社アペックス) is going to “sell” drinks for free using vending machines. Instead of asking you for money, they will show you a CM while the vending machine pours your drink in a paper cup.
Let’s see which blog 😉 is the first one to take a picture of one of these machines.
There are 5.600.000 vending machines in Japan (Source), there is a machine every 22 Japanese!. Is the country with more vending machines in the world, even more than China that has 10 times more population.
There are all kinds of vending machines in Japan, with TV screens, with gambling games, with mobile phone interaction… Some weeks ago I saw a new model that has an interactive map, so you can check restaurants/shops around the place while buying a drink. Nice business model.
This is my record of vending machines in the same photo. I took it in a little street at Ikebukuro, north of Shinjuku at Tokyo.
Only bicycles and vending machines.