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Japanese vending machines now sell spicy “drinkable cold ramen,” but how is this chilled fire?

• Casey Baseel
  May 22, 2023
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Two companies from two nations team up to create Nomu Fururu Reimen.

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• Japan
• (COK • cool • crazy • drinks • Ito En • Japanese vending machines • kimchi • ramen • reimen • SNJO • spicy • spicy ramen • taste test • vending machines • weird)

Our lonely reporter goes searching for Japan’s search-for-a-spouse vending machine

• Casey Baseel
  May 20, 2023

Single once again, Seiji goes looking for love in a can.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • dating • omiai • relationships • romance • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • vending machines • weird)

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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• (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)

Tokyo restaurant with two-year wait now offers random meat packs from vending machine【Taste test】

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 6, 2023

We impulse buy a meal that you’d usually have to plan years in advance.

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• Japan
• (cool • food • meat • vending machines • Wagyu • yakniku)

“Grandpa’s F**k it, Whatever Anything Best 3” gacha is today’s weird capsule machine find

• Oona McGee
  Mar 23, 2023

Handwritten note from a Japanese granddad turns out to be heartwarming…and strangely heartbreaking at the same time.

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• Japan
• (capsule toy machine • capsule toys • COK • cool • gacha • gacha vending machine • grandfather • grandma • grandpa • grandparents • handwritten notes • Japanese grandmother • Japanese vending machines • lists • notes • SNJO • vending machines • weird)

Meet anime’s newest isekai hero: a sentient vending machine in a fantasy world【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 8, 2023

Light novel series Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon makes the jump to anime.

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• (anime • crazy • I Now Wander the Dungeon • isekai • light novels • manga • Reborn as a Vending Machine • vending machines • video • weird)

Vending machine for cat treats installed in Osaka, and it meows at you!【Video】

• Master Blaster
  Feb 25, 2023

It’s a veritable fancy vending machine feast!

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• Japan
• (animals • Cat Day • cat food • cats • COK • Dydo • Japanese vending machines • Mon Petit • Neco Republic • Osaka • Purina • vending machines)

Cat paw button vending machine debuts in Japan to celebrate Cat Day

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 22, 2023

How could anyone resist the urge to press these buttons?

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• Japan
• (Cat Day • cats • COK • cool • cute • drinks • paw pads • Suntory • vending machines)

You can now buy Japan’s popular Yoku Moku Cigare cookies from a vending machine

• Katie Pask
  Feb 21, 2023

Popular butter cookies can now be found in a vending machine, so we try some!

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• (Cigare • COK • cookies • food • Japanese vending machines • SNJO • souvenirs • sweets • vending machines • YOKU MOKU)

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)

We push our luck and buy a lucky bag from a Japanese vending machine

• Oona McGee
  Jan 5, 2023

New Year, new vending machine, and this one is filled with fukubukuro.

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• Japan
• (COK • food • fukubukuro • Fukubukuro 2023 • Fukubukuro Roundup 2023 • Hokkaido • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • local specialties • lucky bag 2023 • Lucky Bag Roundup 2023 • Lucky Bags • lucky bags 2023 • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • weird)

“Have fun seeing what comes out” gacha machine is a mystery in more ways than one

• Oona McGee
  Dec 10, 2022

What the heck will come out of a machine like this?

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• Japan
• (anime • COK • cool • Demon Slayer • figurines • gacha • gacha vending machine • Hokkaido • Japanese vending machines • Kimetsu no Yaiba • Manbekun • Oshamambe Station • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • vending machines • weird)

What’s it like to eat goat sashimi from a Japanese vending machine?

• Oona McGee
  Dec 8, 2022

A local specialty from Okinawa, served up in a very unique way. 

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• (COK • food • goat • Japanese vending machines • Kouhey • local specialties • Okinawa • sashimi • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • weird)

Nara unveils new vending machines that sell deer crackers

• Oona McGee
  Nov 6, 2022

If only the animals had coins to buy them.

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• Japan
• (animals • COK • deer • deer crackers • Japanese vending machines • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • paper • shika • shika senbei • tourism • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • vending machines)

This Japanese vending machine introduces residents to the taste of a different country

• Oona McGee
  Oct 9, 2022

A very sweet way to earn a living in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (baked goods • biscuits • Britain • COK • drinks • England • food • Japanese vending machines • Kobe • MG Ogawa • SNJO • taste test • The Biscuit Barrel • vending machines • weird)

Yes! Ramen soup in heated cans coming to Japanese vending machines and convenience stores

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 8, 2022

Sure, canned coffee is great and all, but this is what we’re really craving.

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• Japan
• (awesome • convenience stores • cool • crazy • drinks • food • hot canned drinks • Ippudo • Japan Railways • JR • JR East • New Days • ramen • tonkotsu • vending machines)

Pokémon vending machine lures us in with its cute animated Pikachu

• Oona McGee
  Oct 6, 2022

The beloved electric Pocket Monster powers up some special goods at this highway stop in Japan. 

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• Japan
• (anime • Ashigara Service Area • COK • highway • Japanese vending machines • merchandise • Pikachu • Pokemon • rubber bands • service area • Shizuoka • SNJO • tourism • travel • traveling • vending machines • video games)

Japanese vending machine mecca: Around 100 rare retro machines await you at this unusual location

• Oona McGee
  Oct 5, 2022

Step back in time with old-school vending machines that dispense unique products in retro packaging.

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• Japan
• (Bon curry • burgers • cool • curry • food • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • Noodles • retort curry • retro • retro technology • soba • tourist sites • tourist spots • travel • udon • unusual • vending machines • weird)

Wagyu beef gacha vending machine dispenses meat at random in Japan

• Oona McGee
  Sep 11, 2022

Like a box of chocolates, you never know which one you’re gonna get.

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• Japan
• (beef • COK • food • gacha • gacha vending machine • Japanese food • Japanese vending machines • MG Ogawa • omi beef • Osaka • SNJO • taste test • vending machines • Wagyu • weird)

This Japanese vending machine wants to help you with the washing up

• Oona McGee
  Sep 9, 2022

But how does it compare to what’s on offer at the Lawson convenience store? 

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• Japan
• (cleaning • COK • Duskin • Japanese vending machines • kitchen sponge • Lawson • SNJO • sponges • Tokyo • vending machines • weird)

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