Japanese Hot Drink Vending Machines

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Japanese hot drink vending machines. The vast majority of jidohanbaiki serve hot and cold beverages such as unsweetened tea soft drinks coffee and energy drinks. The oldest existing japanese vending machine was built into a 1904 mailbox and sold stamps and postcards. In kyoto i even found a vending machine that sells ties and sd memory cards. There are just under 5 million vending machines in japan according to the japan times a little more than the 4 6 million estimated in the united states by vending marketwatch.

There s over 5 million vending machines in japan which is the highest amount of vending machines in world. Vending machines sell both cold and hot drinks hot drinks are available during fall and winter only. It came in a can and it was hot. Pictured above is a vending machine with an inventory of hot and cold beverages including water soft drinks energy drinks juice tea and canned coffee.

This morning i had hot coffee yes hot coffee straight out of a vending machine. Some interesting items can also be purchased from japanese vending machines. A highly diluted artificial grapefruit flavor pocari sweat is lightly sweetened and has a slightly. There are more than 5 6 million of them in the country.

This is a common selection but the selection and price vary by machine. The top countries of suppliers are japan china and south korea from which the percentage of japanese vending machines supply is 2 92 and 5 respectively. I love japanese vending machines. Beverages in a japanese vending machine 1.

I lohas natural mineral bottled water is a new product from coca cola japan which is famous for its campaign. If green tea is not to your liking then this is a tea to try. Hot chocolate coffee soups and vitamin lemon drinks for cold sufferers are all just a button away. The same machine will sell you tsumetai cold drinks as shown with a blue strip or a snowflake icon as atakai hot beverages indicated by a red flame icon.

And it wasn t one of those stick the cup in and push the button kind either. 9 delightful drinks from japan s ubiquitous vending machines pocari sweat. Fanta is a carbonated fruit drink that comes in a variety of fruity flavors. In the 1960s and 1970s coca cola rolled out huge numbers of machines throughout japan.