A Geek in Japan

There are nearly 6 million drinks vending machines in Japan; more or less one vending machine per every 20 people. Coca-Cola, which currently owns almost 1 million vending machines in Japan, has recently announced that they are going to replace all of them with a new ecological model that will be powered by solar panels and will be lit by low consumption LED lights. They will also be equipped with a payment system that uses electronic money and is compatible with almost all the smartcards used in Japan.

Source: Cocacola.co.jp

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• Vending machine with a 47 inches interface
• Used panties vending machines
• Women vending machine
• Porn magazines vending machine
• Hamburger vending machine
• Book vending machine
• Groceries vending machine
• First Oden-kan vending machine
• Alcoholic vending machine
• Shit vending machine
• Vending machines with interactive maps
• 16 vending machines in the same photo
• 50 yen vending machine

You can’t see them very frequently, but as you can find very expensive wines, it seems like you can also find very expensive green tea bottles. This 750ml bottle of green tea, from the brand MASA, costs 210,000 yen (1,900 euro/2,500 dollar). If any of you wants to try it out and see how it is, you can find here the contact e-mail 🙂