00:00Hey guys, I'm up here for our Vending Machines and Cool Gadgets in Japan playlist.
00:04So we don't usually make top 10 videos, but one of our patrons had been looking at our Vending Machines
00:09and Cool Gadgets playlist
00:11and asked what our favourite vending machines would be.
00:17So, a couple of us here sat down and went through a few of them and decided that there are
00:22a few that we like more than others.
00:24This one is an ice cream vending machine, which in summer is a wonderful thing to come across.
00:33When it's a really hot day, cicadas are all humming and stinky hot, and you come across an ice cream
00:43vending machine, it's a wonderful thing to find.
00:46So definitely in our list of top 10 vending machines would be the ice cream vending machine.
00:52And then in winter, the opposite is true.
00:54When you come across a vending machine that sells hot things, so in this case it's a corn potage.
01:01So like a corn soup, next to that was a hot lemon drink, the hot coffees, the hot teas.
01:06There's another corn potage, there's a hot cocoa there on the right.
01:10So definitely vending machines that sell hot things in the middle of winter, coming across these are just excellent.
01:16You can throw one in each pocket, drink them while they're nice and hot.
01:20Oh, have a listen to this machine.
01:22This is one of our favourites just because of the music that it plays while it's making our coffee.
01:27Have a listen to this.
01:38This is one of our favourites.
02:04It's cool, isn't it?
02:05And that machine is actually quite common.
02:07We come across that quite a bit.
02:09And whenever we do, we always make sure we get a coffee and have a little bit of a dance
02:12in front of the vending machine.
02:16So we're now going to show you short versions of each of these videos.
02:20So if you want to see the full version of any of these videos, you want to check out the
02:23rest of it on the vending machines playlist.
02:25You can find them or search them on the channel.
02:27You can pretty well guess what they're going to be called.
02:29This one's just a normal drink machine.
02:31Nothing terribly exciting about it.
02:33But it provides free Wi-Fi.
02:35Which we thought was an excellent idea.
02:38So you can sit down, get a drink, and then use their Wi-Fi to log on.
02:45Which is pretty cool, isn't it?
02:48A pretty good idea.
02:50I haven't seen a lot of those.
02:51I've only seen a couple of those.
02:52But isn't that a good idea?
02:57Oh, we've got to include this one.
02:59This is the used underwear, in inverted commas.
03:04The allegedly used underwear vending machine.
03:07So we're only including this because we know that it's notorious and infamous around the world, is the used panties
03:16vending machine.
03:17So for that reason, we've included it.
03:19It's not really our favorite, but if we're going to do top 10 videos about vending machines, we've sort of
03:27got to include it just because it's in for me.
03:29Anyway, moving along.
03:32Eggs.
03:32Egg vending machine.
03:34And also, same place, there's a rice vending machine.
03:37And we really appreciate these because, obviously, they're selling fresh produce, which is very convenient.
03:44If we suddenly need 10 eggs because we're doing something, we'll need some rice.
03:49The other thing we like about it is it's direct between the farmers and the customers.
03:55Sort of a direct route between the farmers and the customers, which is sort of cool, too.
04:00So we appreciate those ones.
04:02We think they're really good.
04:03The eggs and the rice and the so on.
04:07Oh, yeah.
04:08Touchscreen vending machine.
04:09This one got included.
04:10The touchscreen is fairly entertaining in itself, as you can see.
04:17And the thing we liked about this one is the games.
04:20So they had a whole variety of games in the extended version.
04:23In the full version of the video, we showed you a few different games.
04:26So they had a few.
04:27They had the bowling and they had a few other ones.
04:29Another one that's throwing bottles and cans into recycling containers.
04:33So that was a pretty good one.
04:35So just for novelty value, a touchscreen vending machine that you can play games on is a pretty cool idea,
04:43isn't it?
04:44So that was a bit of fun.
04:52Oh.
04:53Occasionally, all the food in the vending machines is usually pretty good.
04:57But there's just something about these hot dogs.
04:59They've got takoyaki, octopus balls, and they've got rice balls.
05:03They've got all sorts of stuff in this one.
05:06All sorts of good things.
05:09But strangely, the hot dogs that come out of this one are really good.
05:16They're really, really tasty for some reason.
05:18And again, it depends on taste.
05:19No doubt there'll be people watching this who have spent time in Japan who disagree with which vending machines are
05:25the best.
05:25That's fair enough.
05:27We were asked to say which we thought were the best ones.
05:30So this is our top ten.
05:33If you've got your own top ten, that's cool too.
05:35But yeah, oddly, these plastic-style hot dogs, which shouldn't taste good, actually tasted pretty good.
05:43So we quite like them.
05:44Oh, this is cool.
05:46Sunglasses.
05:47It was actually at the airport.
05:49It was at the after security at the airport.
05:56Sunglasses vending machine for people who've forgotten their sunglasses.
05:59Isn't that a good idea?
06:05Don't get to try them on first, unfortunately, but if you didn't have any sunglasses in and you really needed
06:11some, that'd be your solution.
06:18Speaking of good ideas, we really love this one.
06:20This is one of our favorites.
06:22This is a foyer of a hotel and it's an umbrella vending machine.
06:27500 yen.
06:28So that's about three or four dollars for an umbrella.
06:31Isn't that brilliant?
06:32So you get down to the lobby of the hotel and it happens to be raining.
06:37You can buy an umbrella from the vending machine and off you go.
06:40Isn't that brilliant?
06:42Here's another one that tasted surprisingly good.
06:45We weren't sure the popcorn would taste real good.
06:47We thought it could be a bit plasticky or cardboardy or not real fresh or something.
06:52It was exceptionally good.
06:54So I'd had a few options there.
06:56You could pick butter or curry or salt extra, but we weren't with the butter.
07:05And that was a surprisingly tasty popcorn, that one.
07:12So the co-director picked that one.
07:16And I had to agree.
07:18So anyway, that's our top ten vending machines to date until now.
07:22More videos coming soon.
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