Before coming here, people would tell me that you can find anything in a vending machine in Japan. Somewhat true but most of them are your regular drink vending machines but I have spotted interesting ones

  1. Pizza, coronets, and strawberry bread
  2. A dog and cat food vending machine
  3. Regional mochi confectionery boxes
  4. Denim masks from kurashiki
  5. crab bento boxes
  6. Soba noodles in a cup and other noodle packages
  7. Phone accessories mainly but throw in diapers too
  8. Ishikawa regional foods
  9. This might be common throughout japan but it’s the first I’ve seen it
  10. Gourmet French packaged meals
  11. Macarons
  12. Leaf pie cookies
  13. Ramen, but don’t get your hopes up for a hot bowl of it
  14. Tuna gyoza, cinnamon rolls, citrus daifuku mochi
  15. The baskin robbins vending, I think this type. it might be more common around the country
  16. I didn’t know they made them this short

by ogshmorgan

7 Comments

  1. DragonsGape

    I’ve always wondered, do these vending machines accept regular credit cards as well (eg Charles Schwab, Chase, etc) or IC cards only?

  2. I’m surprised you didn’t see a half shiracha, half dashi stock vending machine

  3. VanillaLoaf

    Quote the collection.

    I’m going to crosspost to r/neverchangejapan if you don’t mind.

    Let me know if you do, and I’ll delete it.

  4. kaizokuj

    When we were in Diver City to see the big unicorn gundam, we found a vending machine for meat for making yakiniku.

  5. Found one with just bottles of Sriracha sauce

  6. SirCheeseAlot

    I wish we could have cool things in the US. We would just destroy them in a week here.

  7. thebearofwisdom

    Honestly, I would sell a kidney to visit this country, but I’d be broke immediately, I’m a sucker for a vending machine and a sucker for odd things. I’d have to buy a suitcase and send it home before me.

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