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vending machines (Page 10)
Now you can drink strawberry shortcake from a can — and even shake it to the consistency of your choice!
Local landmark lets you quench your thirst and satisfy your curiosity with just one of Japan’s cheapest vending machine-usable coins.
This restaurant-machine fusion is one small step for vending, one giant leap for vending-machine-kind.
A shadowy organisation wreathed in mystery and the basis of a thousand and one conspiracy theories, now with collectibles!
Some of the reasons Japan loves vending machines have nothing to do with an aging society of love of robots.
The unusual machine with the sweet folded paper designs is warming people’s hearts around Japan.
Now you can get your flying fish soup stock at any time of the day or night in Japan’s capital.
Change your pocketfull of change into a fistfuls of cool souvenirs from your trip to Japan.
Demi-glace soup is the fanciest-sounding, best-tasting machine-sold canned treat we’ve had in a long time.
You’ll never be lonely burning the midnight oil with one of these exhausted kitties diligently working by your side!
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