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Molly The Wally Brings You Her Top Ten Vending Machines of Japan.

The Japanese are bonkers about vending machines. There are nearly 6 million in the country each vying to stand out. So as you’d expect from the land of the rising sun not only do they have some of the most innovative but also some of weirdest coin operated contraptions to grace this planet. Thus on our last day in Nippon land we take a look at ten of the best.

Ever strolled down the road and thought I think I’ll just go and buy a car? Drats everything is shut. What do you do now? No problem you can purchase a Smart Car from a vending machine. Just what every street corner needs! You don’t believe me! Well check out the bottom right. See ‘sold out’ told you just what every street corner needs. Actually pushing the button won’t exactly give you a car, but it does dispense pamphlets on the new models, dealer information, and a sheet of Smart Car stickers. 

Eggs from a vending machine we hear you ask?  It sounds like something that Wallace and Grommit might come up with complete with fan belt, gears and half the kitchen plus lots of broken eggs. So if you have a midnight craving for raw eggs or just fancy taking some home, insert the coins and open the door and retrieve your eggs.  Of course there is a little man inside filling up the next bowl of eggs. He is very small but he is there!

You are in a hurry and you suddenly realise you have forgotten to buy a balloon. I mean there are days when you want eggs and there are days when you just want a balloon. Fear Not! In Japan, they have got a vending machine for those too! Buy and pop away to your hearts delight!

How about a crap crepe vending machine? Those Frenchies get everywhere. Bad enough their fries rule the world leaving our humble chip long forgotten but do they really have to take their crap crepe all the way to the East too?

Fancy eating healthily? Fear not! You can purchase healthy fresh lettuce from a vending machine. Yes grown in artificial light there is none fresher than these. Just a must for all those bunnies out there! Come to think of it, someone over here would find a way to put a bunny in there.

One for Puddles now! Whisky and M&Ms’ anybody! Where did this combination come from? More importantly you do not need ID or proof of age so maybe it is targeted at the juvenile market? Nothing would surprise us!

Spilt your placenta jelly juice all over your tie while eating your wasp biscuit? Fear not! You can now replace it with the tie vending machine. Brilliant if you stayed out all night and wanted to hide the fact that you are still wearing yesterdays’ clothes. 

Sneaky sneaker vending machine created by Japanese sports fashion brand that gets those must have trainers to your feet in records time.  Would be looted here on day one! 

A bread vending machine does not sound a bad idea but bread in a can in a vending machine? What it tastes like we shudder to think? Don’t think a canned loaf would take off over here, we have enough canned oafs as it is! Usually on a Saturday night!

Modelled after a claw machine like you find at the funfair, for a mere 100 yen you can catch your very own fresh, live lobster. Not sure how many goes you get though but if it is anything like the funfair you will be there all day before you land a catch.

Thus we conclude our week in Japan looking at the more bizarre things on offer from the land of the rising sun. Yes the Japanese are not just kimonos, sushi and sake, that is for sure! Sayonara folks! Wonder in the future, what country we should visit next?