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U.K. coffee brand Costa Coffee releases first ever matcha flavor with new Matcha Espresso Latte

• Dale Roll
  May 19, 2023
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A unique take on a matcha latte marks a new path for Costa Coffee!

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• (Coca-Cola • coffee • Costa Coffee • drinks • espresso • green tea • matcha • matcha latte • tea • vending machine)

Japan’s newest vending machine absorbs CO2 from the environment

• Oona McGee
  May 17, 2023

Eco-friendly system turns vending machines into metallic trees. 

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• Japan
• (Asahi • carbon dioxide • carbon neutral • clean environment • cool • drinks • eco • ecological • environment • environmental issues • environmentally friendly • Japanese vending machines • marketing • news • technology • vending machine • vending machines)

Japanese vending machine sells just one thing at this station

• Oona McGee
  Apr 19, 2023

Find out why this machine has been turning heads.

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• Japan
• (drinks • fruit • fruit juice • Mr. Sato • SNJO • strawberries • strawberry • strawberry juice • taste test • Tochigi Prefecture • Tochiotome • Tokyo Station • vending machine)

Sushi from a vending machine — would you try it? Mr. Sato did

• Katie Pask
  Apr 17, 2023

Mr. Sato tries out some vending machine sushi from outside a branch of Sushiro.

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• Japan
• (food • frozen sushi • Japanese food • kyotaru • Mr. Sato • SNJO • sushi • Sushiro • taste test • vending machine)

Should you trust these suspicious-looking Japanese vending machines?

• Oona McGee
  Feb 10, 2023

If “will not your challenge Big Box” was a question, the answer would be no.

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• (COK • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • vending machine • vending machine toys • vending machines • weird • Yuuichiro Wasai)

You don’t have to go all the way to Haneda to find a vending machine that sells airplane meals

• Dale Roll
  Dec 28, 2022

But we can see why you’d want to!

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• Japan
• (airplane food • Asagaya • bento • food • frozen meal • in-flight meals • Mr. Sato • travel • vending machine)

Make restaurant quality food at home with Japanese restaurant Kitchen ABC’s vending machine

• Katie Pask
  Sep 15, 2022

Making restaurant quality food at home is as simple as (Kitchen) ABC.

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• Japan
• (fast food • food • Japanese vending machines • Mr. Sato • Ready meals • restaurants • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • taste test • Tokyo • vending machine • yakiniku)

“H” means a few things in Japan, which is why we mistook this vending machine for something else

• Oona McGee
  Jul 20, 2022

An H vending machine, right in the heart of Tokyo’s Shinjuku district**.**

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• Japan
• (Amaou • COK • cool • food • frozen fruit • fruit • h • Japanese vending machines • Mr. Sato • shinjuku • SNJO • strawberries • vending machine • vending machines • weird • white strawberries • wtf)

Vending machine in Tokyo subway station to sell Sailor Moon Anna Sui goods for a limited time

• Dale Roll
  Jul 15, 2022

Sailor Moon 30th Anniversary collectibles are soon to be easier than ever to buy!

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• Japan
• (accessories • anime • Anna Sui • fashion • handkerchief • luxury brand • manga • Sailor Moon • vending machine • Yurakucho)

Cold karaage vending machines take fried chicken to new extremes

• Oona McGee
  Jun 21, 2022

Take a trip to heaven and hell with “Deep Fried Chicken of Angel and Devil I wish you every happiness”.

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• (chicken • COK • cool • food • fried chicken • Japanese vending machines • karaage • SNJO • vending machine • vending machines • weird • wtf)

Japan has a wild boar and venison vending machine, and here’s a great dish to make with its meat

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 14, 2022

Wild game gives us some unique ingredients to experiment with in the SoraKitchen.

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• Japan
• (COK • cooking • cool • food • haruka takagi • recipe • SNJO • SoraKitchen • vending machine • venison • weird • wild boar • wild game)

Our reporter finally tried vending machine ramen, and his life is changed forever

• Dale Roll
  Dec 8, 2021

Seiji may never need to go to a ramen restaurant again, so long as he can find a ramen vending machine.

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• Japan
• (Japanese food • Kiyose • Noodles • ramen • ramen jiro • ramen vending machine • Seibu Ikebukuro Line • Seiji Nakazawa • vending machine)

We try fresh orange juice squeezed for us by a vending machine in Saitama【Taste test】

• Katie Pask
  Sep 17, 2021

Does fresh OJ taste even sweeter when it’s squeezed by a machine?

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• Japan
• (cool • drinks • Japanese vending machines • orange • Orange juice • Saitama • taste test • Tasuku Egawa • technology • vending machine)

Titan trash can to be placed near a Coca-Cola vending machine in Oita to help promote recycling

• Dale Roll
  Sep 15, 2021

Hopefully it will help people realize they’re not supposed to throw trash in recycling bins.

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• Japan
• (Attack on Titan • Coca-Cola • eco-friendly • recycling • trash • trash can • trash disposal in Japan • vending machine)

Pick a beautiful blossom from Shinjuku Station’s limited-time flower vending machine

• Katy Kelly
  Jul 12, 2021

This ephemeral vending machine lets you buy a floral gift right in the heart of the Japanese capital.

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• Japan
• (dried flowers • flowers • fortune • gacha • Odakyu • pretty • seasonal flowers • Shinjuku Station • vending machine • weird)

We visit Japan’s new Sriracha vending machines to get our spicy red-sauce fix【Pics】

• Scott Wilson
  Jun 11, 2021

Once hard to find in Japan, now it’s super convenient!

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• Japan
• (hot sauce • Nagoya • SNO • spicy • sriracha • taste test • vending machine)

Bandai releases a retro item with zodiac signs in gachapon capsule toy form…but what is it?

• Krista Rogers
  Jun 8, 2021

This little device could almost always be found in cafés in Japan throughout the latter part of the Showa Period (1926-1989).

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• Japan
• (capsule toy • fortune-telling • fun • gachapon • luck • miniature • omikuji • retro • roulette • Showa • vending machine • zodiac signs)

Power up like Godzilla with new limited-edition Godzilla Energy Drink

• Dale Roll
  May 1, 2021

King of the Monsters sets out to become King of the Energy Drinks too.

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• Japan
• (COK • drinks • energy drinks • Godzilla • Godzilla vs. Kong • kaiju • movies • vending machine)

Retro noodle soup vending machine is immortalized in an udon soup-flavored pound cake

• Krista Rogers
  Dec 1, 2020

One noodle-dispensing vending machine in the north of Japan is so beloved that you can now buy it in dessert form with a special box.

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• Japan
• (Akita • cake • COK • food • Noodles • pound cake • SNJO • soba • sweets • udon • vending machine • vending machines)

To prevent heatstroke and COVID-19, Ibaraki vending machines dispense free cold water to students

• Ingrid Tsai
  Aug 31, 2020

The vending machines have been set up at 14 different elementary and middle schools in Tsukubamirai city.

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• Japan
• (COVID-19 • disease prevention • health • heat prevention • heat stroke • Ibaraki • summer • Tsukubamirai • vending machine)

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