The Japanese install vending machines out of desperation (8 photos)

Japan has the most vending machines per capita. They sell things that we couldn’t even imagine. But this is not because the Japanese are machine gunners. The reason is completely different.





Everyone says that Tokyo is an ultra-modern metropolis, and vending machines are such a part of the urban landscape. Moreover, they are the most modern in the country, but what forced Japan to develop hundreds of types of vending machines?

There's no room, there's no room!



Pizza from a vending machine? Why not, if you have a microwave at home. Or immediately warmed up!?

Do you know how much space the sales counter, the salesperson behind it, and the warehouse take up? How much does it cost to rent even a couple of square meters in Tokyo? No small store can simply pay for itself.

It turns out that it is impossible to put a store with sweets in the center, otherwise a chocolate bar will cost as much as a whole kilogram. And it’s a four-block walk to the supermarket... It’s kind of a dead end.





The essence of Japan in one frame. And there’s probably still some stuff with the taste of boiled crayfish

Unless you install a 30cm wide vending machine. Even in expensive Tokyo it will cost a pittance, especially since the government initially partially subsidized the distribution of machine guns.

We will all be replaced by robots, the Japanese have already been replaced



This is generally a tinny thing, a pet store vending machine. Two hundred yen goldfish, I wonder how long they'll live

These are the horrors that dystopias depict us, that we will be replaced in the workplace by robots. Vending machines have already replaced several thousand sellers. The first to lose their jobs were people without education, who already have to struggle to survive in a big city.

Interestingly, the spread of machine guns pushed many poor people out of cities to the outskirts.



Vending machine with fresh bananas. Let's just say I'm interested

But again, the Japanese would be happy to install stores, but the rent will not be paid for by any small items that can be sold in a vending machine.

Therefore, machine guns are a consequence of the hopelessness of the geographical and economic situation in Japan. However, traditions of almost all countries are formed there. Our children eat ice cream in the cold winter. Because when else, if winter is eight months?

But there are also advantages!



A unique machine that sells rhinoceros beetles. I... I have no words.

Japan has a low crime rate, so machine guns are rarely smashed or stolen. In any other country they would carry chocolates from there, in some places more, in others less. There is a suspicion that in Mexico they would simply take away the entire machine one night and put it in their home.

No need to go to the bank



This is an egg vending machine. If it is said that you can buy everything, it means EVERYTHING.

What to do if you have accumulated a lot of change? Previously, our minibus drivers suffered from this and stood in line for change at the bank. And in Japan, if you have accumulated coins, you simply buy yourself anything - from chocolate, cola to panties from the vending machine. Very convenient, no bureaucracy.

And children simply love this option for going to the store. Moreover, in this option there is no need to communicate with the seller, and Japanese stores are also a test of the cultural code. In some, sellers bow when entering and exiting; visiting such an “attraction” is not very pleasant for the Japanese themselves, not to mention foreigners.



Such a simple Japanese street where there is a snack for every taste

Do you buy anything from vending machines?