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The awesome music for Powers of Ten is 'Gas - Microscopic' btw. The album, Gas 0095, goes for $460 on eBay! Thanks for the cool pics and vids btw :-)
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Awesome post!! I've only ever stepped foot into Japan's airport for transit and never got out to see the vending machines and thus have been curious about them ever since!
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Worth it just to read the graffiti of "neck face."
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don't forget condom vender!
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i heard that you can even get a free drink from vending machine in japan
if you care to spend less then 1 minute to hear some ads first
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There's an iPod/small electronics vending machine in George H.W. Bush Airport in Houston, Texas. i was amazed, but didn't have an opportunity to take any pictures.
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Dont forget Internet Kiosks:)
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You know how they have disposable cellphones in the US? In Japan there's that too. Vending machines sell cellphones, and other small electronics... I heard that there's some that even sell winniers! XD
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recent laws on cigarette vending machines have changed, and a 'taspo' identification card is now required at all times to purchase cigarettes from a vending machine.
all cig vending machines ive seen in tokyo over the last several months now have the card readers installed, so it's no longer very easy to obtain cigarettes as a minor.
alcohol is a different matter. but nobody really cares anyway.
one more interesting quirk about japanese vending machines, which you didnt mention, is that it is very common to see soda cans of varying size, where the larger can costs the same ammount as the smaller can. supposedly the idea is that customers will select their can based on their thirst, but I've always thought this was pretty crazy.
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That egg vending machine was something else!
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designed to bring enjoyment, yet these monstrosities are just another blip in the sterile and souless modern japan.
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I would like to expand on Healthyfood's comment. As of May 2008, all public cigarette vending machines are required to have a Taspo (Tabaco Passport) card reader installed. While that renders machines useless to those who do not hold Taspo, it is my observation that it is still easy enough to get cigarettes as a minor through convience stores such as Lawson and 7&i(7-Eleven), as they rarely check for age verification. Same goes for liquor.
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Should probably be mentioned that public buildings and almost every company is now completely non-smoking, restaurants are required to have clearly separated smoking/non-smoking areas and that some areas of Tokyo even ban smoking in the street.
Some big changes in the last 4 years!
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Did I miss the machine selling soiled panties? That's always the money shot for Japanese vending machine rundowns like this one.
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Heh, I thought it was crazy the number of vending machines when I went to Japan until the 3rd day. Then it was vending machine = water. A god send during a very hot 2007 Summer. He he Pokari Sweat was really polular when I was there. Once found one that had 500ml cans of coke for 120 yen. Cheap!!
Oh, one problem was there are very few bins around to deposit your empty drink into. And the recycle bins next to a machine was always full. ¬.¬
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I'm currently living in Tokyo, and have recently traveled to Osaka and Kyoto, and some of the info given is very exaggerated. For example, alcohol vending machines are really not nearly as common as cigarette vending machines, which by the way, as other people have pointed out, mostly all use taspo. And you say that the lingerie vending machines are "quite common in large cities," but I've maybe seen one in the 8 months I've been here. Maybe I'm not going down the same shady alleyways you are, but I'm pretty sure they're still very rare.
But still, good article. I'm still fascinated by the car park elevators, those things are just crazy.
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From JapanINmoiton.com
I live in Japan and there is 2 ways to look at this as a "why do you have so many vending machines? Because we have a lot of drinks.
Why do you have so many drinks?
Because we have a lot of vending machines!"
Or my view that the japanese live for three things.
1. they love putting money into machines. there are a ton of crap with coin slots here. even at sit down places you have to goto a ticket machine and but a food ticket first.
2. they love standing in live that's why they love disney land a lot of standing in line and at new ramen places you get to stand in long lines waiting to put you money into a machine.
3. they love having pictures taken of themselves. not that they like taking pictures. again a great bonus because if there is a new print club machine at the game center...you can wait...in line...to put money....in to machine....and then get you picture taken of yourself over and over again
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i saw a baby in a vending machine in kumamoto. 200 yen yen fuck that
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"And with 500,000 cigarette vending machines the young can easily purchase cigarettes. Smoking is legally prohibited until 20 years of age. The only method of prevention related to cigarette vending machines is that they are turned off between 11:00 P.M. and 6:00"
This is incorrect. As of this year, Japan as issued a nation-wide mandate ordering all of the cigarette vending machines to require identification showing proof of age. You have to apply for a Taspo card, which you have to insert into the vending machine before it will dispense any cigarettes.
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I was about to leave the same comment another Anonymous user left. I know of THREE, yes THREE alcohol vending machines in Yokohama (all of them in the suspected places -- near hostess bars and all night party areas). My favorite is the sake machine and for the price its pretty damn good... surprisingly.
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@anon, regarding alcoholic vending machines:
I think that only applies to tokyo/osaka/massive metro zones. I saw MANY MORE alcoholic dispensing machines in smaller cities (what seemed to be more than cigarette machines).
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What about the ramen & oden vending machines???
Can't leave them out!
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Interesting that the machine craze started because of a labor shortage. Hard to imagine not having enough workers in such a congested place as Japan.
Also, I guess they predate all the 7-11s, AM/PMs and Lawsons that are on every street corner. Surely 24 hour stores will put machines out of business?
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japanese vending machine coffee is the BEST! Especially on a cold morning.
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They really shut them off from 11 PM? I stayed in Kyoto for 2 months last year, and had a habit of going for walks downtown at 2 or 3 am just to see the city with less people around (though Japanese cities are NEVER empty). I frequently grabbed a beer from a vending machine on these walks. It was great to be allowed to drink outside, I'd have gotten a ticket for that here in Canada.
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im sorry... but the grafitti above the one said "neck face." Bloody priceless. I love language barriers.
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aw, i miss japan! however, i blame my social cigarette addiction to those flashy virginia slim vending machines around the corner from the apartment i lived in there. :) and for the record, 90% of those drinks in the vending machines are SO YUMMY!!!!
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There is NOODLE vendin machine in AKIHABARA in TOKYO
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http://flickr.com/photos/irrational_cat/94047563/
This is the must for geeks who wants to visit akihabara. Try it out on sunday. You'll be envied as a jedi geek.
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great post, experienced the same thing when I was in Tokyo =) thought it was great the days were hot and I could find cold beverages everywhere hehe.
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Well now for the cigarette vending machines, they have a system called Taspo, which is on the machine, and to get cigarettes from the vending machines, you have to swipe an infared card to the machine as age verification. And the card is something you have to sign up and is a form of id. However, if you look old enough, you still can go to convenience stores and buy cigarettes easily without questions ask, particularly if you are foreign.
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I haven't been to Japan since 1965, but even then vending machines were ubiquitous.
I was surprised to find sake and beer vending machines in Yokohama's underground mall near the train station and Matsubaya, as well as in the main train station in Tokyo. As I recall the price then was 100 yen which was about 28 cents US - it sounds as if the prices in yen - haven't changed much in 45 years.
They also had video jukeboxes in many of the clubs, mostly French and Japanese music as I recall - Sylvie Vartan was very popular at the time.
The machines are a lot more gaudy and "in your face" now than they were back then as well as being a lot bigger than the older models.
Pretty interesting story, thanks for it.
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...I have seen an flower-vending-machine in a little town in the near of Leipzig xD...greetings from Germany.
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Some machines in hotels, etc will dispense green tea for free...
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In Japan, many small restaurants make you buy food tickets by vending machine so they don't need a cashier
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/purchase-tasty-ramen-by-vending-machine-in-shibuya/
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japan's technology - fantastic!
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These frogs catch flies and mosquito admiring the light of vending machines at night.
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Kirin beer!!! Love it!
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切れてるリンゴも出たよ！
http://www.47news.jp/CN/201101/CN2011011801000868.html
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"Watching clouds & seeing shapes becomes a theme in advertising:"
The pictures are from a french film Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
http://imdb.com/title/tt0211915/
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The two photos of the little girl taking pictures of animals in the clouds is from the movie Amelie, not an advert.
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Spectacular Mammatus Clouds over Hastings, Nebraska
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html
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great tips, all... thanks, i've adjusted the post.
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the gravity wave looks a lot like being under ocean surf. just fantastic!
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that second movie isn't Amelie, it's Tideland.
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Snopes seems to think it's from Amelie -
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Awesome pictures!
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"It's hard to enjoy the fascination of storm chasing when people are getting hurt." (Alan Moller)
No, it isn't actually; not at all.
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As for the CLEVER all all kinds of similar vehicles you should check out this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vx98DjcVc
It's called CARVER and is already in production, so this is already happening.
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I wanted to say the very same thing as the guy before me did. It's in production for a while already, it looks awesome. I've seen it around at a Belgian track a few times (Zolder), and in that vicinity it also drove in front of me a few weeks back.
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I know that's got to be fake, but I'm afraid someone will try it and kill their cat.
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The National UFO Reporting Center, of all things, now is located on a former missile base.
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for last items, it is not made of plastic rather steel covered with enamel - yours truly had a chance to touch it in past, it is cold enough.
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There are no nuclear warheads in Hungary and never was :o)
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Those were neutralized anti - aircraft missiles on their way to Ukraine to disassemble them. Great site anyway :o)
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Well I don't know - some of those traffic cops appear to have a suspicious 'glow' about them. ;)
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There is a very interesting TITAN missile launching site preserved as a museum 20 miles south of Tucson AZ. Good to visit after the Pima Aircraft ans Space Museum and Davis Monthan AFB if you are in the area.
Stuka222, France
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I read something about a couple of "keys" that came from the launch panel of an old Soviet ICBM bunker and turned up on ebay! Turned out that they actually came from a launcher "training" panel. Would still be cool on your key ring!
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3 Comments:
Nice collection. :)
Great pics. Just to let you know, the motorcycly image that you have titled, "Wipe Out!" isn't a wipe out at all. It's a freestyle MX trick called a Lazyboy Backflip... and he made it :D
Bull fighting is not considered as an actual sport, any way those are great pictures!!!
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