Scotty Allen
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Japanese Retro Vending Machines!
🕑 Added 2023-05-26 18:16:19 +0000 UTCWhen I was in Japan last month shooting the next season of Jet Lag with Wendover Productions, I got a chance to hang out with John Daub from Only in Japan. He took me to this amazing tire yard outside of Tokyo, where the owner has started an incredible retro vending machine museum. We got him to open up some of the more unique machines and show us how they worked. And boy, are they incredible. We're still polishing up this edit (John went back out there yesterday to get some more footage for us), and we'll probably be releasing the final version next week, at the same time John releases his video about the evolution of vending machines in Japan.
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Scotty Allen
Yes! This one should go up this weekend.
Carl Trimble
Are these videos ever going to make it to YouTube? I want to share this video with a few friends but can’t…
Ed Matthews
Awesome! I love these !
Ramon
That's so awesome! I love the ingenuity of these old vending machines, making the best of the available technologies back then. I was also in Japan during the same time and loved digging through the various electronic stores in Akihabara and Den-Den town.
Scott R.
Yes it was nuts. They also wanted to buy whatever we would sell. I ended up selling my Members Only jacket for 50 rubles (about $50 at the time) but then there was almost nothing to buy with the money which was worthless elsewhere and couldn’t be exchanged. Sigh.
Scotty Allen
That sounds amazing!
Jay Dixon
loved this video, this stuff is fascinating :D definitely better than disneyworld, though i'm kind of fond of fuji-q :)
Olaf Rühenbeck
I love that you are traveling again. I kinda feel its a part of you personality you were missing during the pandemic and ensuing health problems. :o) So happy
Scott R.
When I visited the USSR around 1983 (don't know the year, I was about 14), they had these vending machines on the streets that sold a sort of lemonade. But the crazy thing was that the glasses were real glasses...made of glass. You would put in a coin, then take the glass and turn it upside down and press it down on this sort of pad thing, which would trigger it to spray water up into the glass, supposedly cleaning it. Then you would turn it over and get your drink. When you were done drinking you left the glass there. These were all over, it was the norm.
Scott R.
Wow that's so awesome. Thanks for the video!
InterFelix
Oh my god, I'm so hyped for the new season of Jet Lag. The crossover we never knew we needed, but needed nevertheless.
Scotty Allen
Yes, this is on the outskirts of Tokyo. I'm not sure exactly where to be honest - John was driving 😂. I'm sure his video will have the location once it comes out on Youtube though.
Xavier Mirabelli-Montan
This is so cool Scotty! I definitely need to go to Japan. Where is this located? Near Tokyo? I just got back from vacation in Bulgaria and they had really coffee vending machines everywhere. Better yet the coffee was 45cents and actually okay!
