Name: I went to that Retro Vending Machine Park in Japan
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Hello! Recently I've been seeing some videos about this retro vending machine theme park kind of area and I wanted to check it out for myself to see if it was worth the trip and here I am! I made it!

It is not super easy to get here, I will say. It is in an area called Sagamihara and you have to take maybe two trains and a bus depending where you're coming from. It'll take you about like an hour, 30 to 2 hours depending. This area is really amazing, it's a tire shop and they have a bunch of old retro vending machines. I think some of them have stuff, some of them don't, some of them are like 40 years old, some of them are new. So I'm just gonna be walking around trying a bunch of stuff and seeing if it's worth it to come out here. It looks really really cool. By the way, vending machine in Japanese is Jidou Hanbaiki. But to shorten it we just call it Jihanki.

However, me and my friends we call them Jihanks sometimes but I don't know if you should do that.

Don't do what I do. Let's get started, let's go see what we can find, buy a bunch of stuff and eat it and hopefully don't get food poisoning. I don't know how old these are so it should be okay. Let's go! Also I don't know if you smork but if you do smork they do have a smorking area so you'll be totally fine. Some of them also don't have anything in them like this food and snack but a lot of them do. I want this to be monetized but if you want some fresh pussy you can buy it right here. There's a bunch of different sodas, they have ramune, melon soda, grape soda, orange soda. I love pussy myself. These are milk coffee and milkshakes and I have no idea what this is. I actually read online that a lot of the older machines, the original products, they don't sell them anymore. However, the owner collects the machines and has worked with local businesses and they sell their products and restock it in the machines. So support local even through Jihanki, even through Jihank, my favorite Hollywood actor. Calorie Mate the drink, I've never had it. I've had Calorie Mate the bar, you might have seen them in the convenience store, they're quite dry. I just love the design of the machines. I have had the mikan cider with real mikan juice in it. It's not bad, it's not my favorite but it's not bad.

Oh we have our first alcohol vending machine. Wait never mind, this is non-alcoholic. What does it say about cucumbers with the beer? This is just cucumbers. These are all non-alcoholic beers and umeshu and yuzushu and then you can get a can of cucumbers. What is this? I don't know if this one will be working anymore but there's heaps of ice creams. This Gari Gari-kun has seen better days.

Same with this Gari Gari-kun, ume flavored. Azuki bean ice cream from Hokkaido. This one looks new so maybe, maybe they have this, I don't know. Here you can get a giant box of cocoa cigarettes.

It's interesting, in the west in general I think there used to be the white candy sticks called the word for cigarettes that is also a slur which I'm not going to say uh but now in Australia they're called fads uh and they're like you know candy sticks rather than cigarettes but here they're still called cocoa cigarettes. Cocoa cigaretto. So they're just not really shying away from the whole children smoking thing. Potato boy. There's no potato chips in it. I mean it probably used to be potato chips let's be honest but here there are zero potato chips. We have like an inverted pocky kind of vibe called picola or choco anpan. Those ones you can find at the konbini as well. Very cute. Kokuto Genmai. Black sugar Genmai. So like brown rice.

Black sugar brown rice drink. These look really good. Miki. Miki does not say what Miki is.

Miki just says that it's Miki. I love this lady. Look at her. Her drink says that she's drinking a brick pack. Brick pack. It sounds like inedible but she's drinking it. She's drinking 200 bricks.

They have a Kodak film vending machine which I do not know if they're still selling stuff from here because film is very expensive these days. This machine doesn't have much in it but at the bottom it has habu kare which is snake curry. I don't know if there's actually oh habu ekisu. So there's there's snake extract in there and I don't know what that means.

I don't know how you get extract from a snake. Did you know in Wakayama UCC has a grave in like one of the the most beautiful and most holy I guess is the word grave sites in Japan.

UCC has a grave for to remember I believe employees who've died while working with the company. However like the gravestone is a cup of coffee. So fun fact. Okay this is really interesting they have a cigarette vending machine which does still exist. People can buy cigarettes from vending machines but this one is full of candy cigarettes. They're so cute. They've got the little bob dog cigarettes and mycos. We support your non-smoking mental oh actual cigarettes. Okay going down the next line we have gum vendor. It's cool. So you gotta believe it. The mouth etiquette. You don't want to be talking to someone with a nasty breath.

However these aren't gum. These are frisk mints. So it's not actually the gum vendor but it is still minty freshness for okuchi no etiquette. Oh cup man. Cup noodle. I don't know if they still if this one would still work. Oh seven up as well. What? Select drink first deposit two nickels or one dime. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Now we have 200 yen coca-cola. Coca-cola zero, fanta grape, hi-c orange, ginger ale and oolong tea. Also for the seven up machine they have a bottle opener built in for opening the glass bottles. Really cool. Kitsune udon. So this is kitsune udon in 27 seconds. Also another part of the 27 second series we have ochatsuke. Ochatsuke is like a light ricey soup kind of thing but this one is unfortunately broken. Lotte chewing gum.

Lotte chewing gum. Oh they actually do have lotte chewing gum. That's crazy.

Really cute though. Oh this is actually really awesome. Such an amazing collection of machines.

Like I've never seen. I might have seen like maybe one or two over my time here. They're like that kind of retro vibe but this is an insane collection. Oh popcorn. Huge. Oh this is really cute design. I love this. Yo what is this? A roulette? What is the roulette for? I don't really want anything in here but I want to play the roulette. I wonder if it still works. To be honest I don't think the food is going to be amazing but that's not why I'm here. I'm not here to have an amazing meal.

Who knows maybe I'll find something that's super delicious and I'll just be pleasantly surprised.

Yaki onigiri. New Yorker sando. Any New Yorkers in the crowd, does that look like something they have in New York? Chahan tendon. Tempura on rice gets soggy quicker than you can ever realize. If you order it on Uber Eats you're gonna get it soggy.

So the idea of it being in a vending machine is like, oh these are huge. They do not have these but they are massive. Oh cute omikuji. You can see what our luck is. This does kind of feel like a shrine in a way. Like a shrine to gods of the 60s and 70s you know. And look they've, oh everybody who's got an omikuji, if you get a bad one everybody's tied it on the roof. I was wondering what they were. They're everywhere. There's baby bottle yogurt or Godzilla energy right next to it so take your pick. The yogurt is expensive though. 650 yen. They have a kakigori machine here so shaved ice. It says that it's broken right now however I did see someone on google reviews with shaved ice so I do think it can happen but maybe they just need to repair it. Here we have bon curry. Bon curry rice with amakuchi and karakuchi. So spicy and not so spicy. And this guy is saying omochikaeri mo dekimasu. He's saying it in a very excited way. Oh I love the packets for bon curry though. That's beautiful. Here we have cup food. Cup food. Oishisa ippai. Kimchi noodles, lots of different noodles, potage, some soups. Oh and the window microwave. And next to it they have popcorn and I can smell the popcorn so I feel like they actually have it. I might get popcorn.

Variety bento right now. Oh oh look this is the microwave. It's built into the machine. That is crazy. It doesn't work which is totally fine. It's just so cool that it was originally built into the machine. Okay they have a hot toasted sandwich one but I think they're all sold out on all of them. Oh wait, kore wa? Sold out. Oh I really, I would love. They have anbata sando.

This is a red bean and butter sandwich, ham and cheese, corned beef and this one was tuna.

But they're all sold out. I'm so sad I would have eaten that. They have little boxes of hamburgers and they're all sold out and I'm so sad. I did see pictures of people getting the hamburgers before so they do have them sometimes but not today. They have two hamburger machines but yeah unfortunately all sold out. The people before us just tried to get one as well and they're not happening. Just came around to the other side. They have a cute little soda thing. We have again double pussy action. All you ladies pop your pussy like this, shake your body don't stop, don't miss. All you ladies pop your pussy like this, shake your body don't stop. But actually in Japanese it's purashi. So it sounds a little different but come on. Over here we have mini restaurants. So cute. What have we got? Wafu hamburger rice. It's Japanese style hamburger rice. Stew and rice, stew and rice, gyudon, beef ball, curry rice, curry and rice.

Whenever, wherever. It's hot. Oh he's so cute. Hot 24. He's so cute. So this used to be an ice cream machine but a croffle place has taken it over and they're selling croffles here and you can win a little game if you get a croffle. I might get a croffle later. Just came around a corner and there are even more vending machines however the ones on this side are not working. But isn't this the coolest popcorn machine you've ever seen? It's so so cute. They have butter and cheese flavor but unfortunately it's not working. I would 100% get popcorn from this if I could. Look he's even holding a little corn. Let's go in to the spooky corridor part of it.

Inside the corridor the machines don't look as old or retro however the contents of the machines are very interesting. Here they have satokibi from Okinawa, so sugar cane. They also have same-jya-ki, shark jerky, alcohol cup. This used to be alcohol but now they've changed the contents to being amazake so that's non-alcoholic. Amazake is like a sweet rice drink.

We got toffee apples and choco banana. Just the skinniest little vending machine just for Dr Pepper.

So cute. Baseball roulette. So I guess depending on which one you buy you go in the chance to see if you hit a home run. Maybe you win another drink or something. Freshing drinks. I love to be freshed.

Nothing like a freshing beverage. Some more here. Just some snacks. More snacks. More snacks.

Oh my god so many people did the omikuji. Look at this. This must be so many years worth of people doing the lucky fortune. That is wild. Okay all right well now it's time for me to decide what

I'm gonna eat and I gotta go get it because I am hungry and hopefully it tastes good. Let's go.

Is there any button to press? Please. There's no instructions.

Anybody? It's a big button. Please give me my coins back.

All right maybe cut here. I'm not usually a huge energy drink person but a lot of stuff is sold out and I am intrigued by Godzilla Energy 3.

Wait as soon as you put the money in it says 売り切れ.

Okay so just a heads up before you come here be more prepared than I have been. Yeah I didn't bring enough coins. There are so many things that I want to eat here and the change machine isn't working so I gotta go to a close by 7-11 and get some change and should be okay. But just come prepared and bring a butt ton of coins. Mainly 100 yen coins. Also the Kitsune Udon was broken but they just gave me a refund for it and put a broken sign on it. We've been on an adventure.

Definitely bring enough change. I'm worried about this machine because it's the same kind of machine that broke over there. This one is 500 yen. I'm gonna try 100 yen coins.

Oh okay. Oh and it's come up on the thing. 200. 500. Please work.

Oh boy it's counting down. It's counting down. It's counting down. Oh my gosh it's happening.

It's happening. This is so exciting. This is way too fast for a meal to be prepared.

Three, two, one. Oh hi. Oh my gosh yeah that's hot. That looks very hot and there's a lot of juice on everything. I don't know how I'm gonna carry this. It is filled to the brim. It is like and it's like a flimsy plastic bowl. I don't know how I'm gonna carry this.

It's completely overflowed. Ow. No, no, no.

All right managed to survive with the Niku Soba. In the machine have some shichimi which is seven spice. A very popular seasoning here and some chopsticks as well.

Put a little bit of shichimi on top and now we're good to go. Itadakimasu.

The broth is quite sweet. There's kind of interesting sweetness to it that I don't know if I fully vibe with. It's got it's got like not such a strong flavor but it's quite sweet.

Kamaboko tastes like kamaboko. It's not bad. The meat is actually really dry even though it's been sitting in soup. Yeah the noodles themselves still got a good chew to them.

I don't know how they've done it but yeah still nice and chewy. Not bad quality noodles. It's super futsu. Maybe even a slightly less than but it's still an enjoyable hot meal.

Especially for like so cheap to get from a vending machine. I'm actually impressed but it's not like you know I didn't come here expecting restaurant quality and I'm not gonna get that but it's still enjoyable and it's piping hot.

I think that I will rate it a six out of ten. It's not bad. It's like it's still enjoyable. I'll still eat the whole thing. It's not bad at all. Quite nice but yeah six out of ten. Let's try something else. We're doing bonkare. Hopefully everything's selling out by the way so we gotta go quick. We're gonna go karakuchi. That was so quick. Oh my god it's so cute.

Look at that. That's awesome. Okay I'm glad we got that one and yeah it's really it's hot.

Somehow it's hot. I think this popcorn one is working. I can smell popcorn so I'm gonna try.

It's only 100 yen. Oh okay. All right. Oh my god.

Nice. That's the fastest popcorn I've ever received.

All right gonna try. I don't know if it'll work.

I forgot to select which drink I wanted at the start. You're supposed to switch it to whatever.

You can feel it manually switching it behind but I forgot to switch it to the one I wanted but luckily I do love cola. Especially cola in a glass bottle. Do I open it now?

Oh my gosh I'm gonna do it. That was so satisfying. That was awesome.

There's something about it when it comes in a glass bottle.

Oh yeah. Round two of food. Have some fresh popcorn here. I don't know about fresh.

They come out a little too quickly to be fresh but it's crunchy. It's very lightly salted but the flavor is there. It's actually delightful. Makes me want to go see a movie. It's enjoyable.

It's a classic. 100 yen for a little fun time. I don't mind paying that. Popcorn's gonna get actually a 7 out of 10 comparing it to just normal popcorn. The more I'm eating it the more salty it tastes. Great texture and I think it's like a really cool seeing it just come out like that. I like that. Next up we have bon kare. It came out immediately which stresses me.

Oh the packet comes separately to the rice. All right and then we just pour it on top.

Oh it does have that particular color of uh all right. Bon kare. See some chunks of vegetables, some chunks of meat. It's warm. Itadakimasu.

Much more delicious than the soba. The flavors going on are very nice. It does have a nice light spice to it. Japanese spice is usually not as spicy as you think it's going to be.

Nice chunky vegetables. Good flavor. The rice is great. The rice is like chewy. Not too soft.

It's not bad. Again I wouldn't eat this in a restaurant but I might eat it like at home.

It's like just a quick midday snack. Yeah honestly not bad. Honestly not bad. I would give this 7.5 out of 10. I will say it's not that hot. It's like warm. Like a bit warm. So I would prefer it to be a bit more piping hot but it is still really good. And the cola. Not sponsored by cola but I will say this is a 10 because I love cola in a glass bottle and I loved the bottle opener. That was a great moment for me. We just had a chat to a lovely lady who's visiting from Shikoku from

Ehime prefecture and she had a chat to the owner and they have specific days that they restock certain things. So tomorrow they're gonna have hot sandwiches and I think they're gonna restock the burgers. It's like Wednesday there's no burgers ever. Thursday in the very late in the evening they might have burgers but Friday they should have burgers and Friday morning they'll have hot sandwiches. So you have to kind of know when and where to be. I'm wondering if there's like a guide online to what's available when because honestly things sold out very quickly. It's a very very popular place mainly for people driving. So people driving by, stopping, grabbing a snack. It's just like a really cool little spot to grab some food, grab a drink and I think it's well known by people.

So yeah it's been pretty busy the entire time that we've been here. All right berumii. Berumii coffee.

Yes! Milk shake. It's so sweet. I forgot my microphone. Sorry I forgot my microphone. I hope that this is better. Anyway if you didn't hear me the milkshake it's or milkshake it's very sweet.

Very strong like condensed milk, vanillary, pudding-y kind of flavor but it's still really good.

I would give this, the more I drink it the more I like it. I would give it like a seven. I'll give it a seven out of ten. It's not bad. I like it but I probably wouldn't get it again.

Yeah okay. Daikichi. My first one in so long. So maybe this place is good luck for me. I don't know the details yet but I'm very happy with that. I've had not great luck for quite a while so thank you. All right I want to try and win something. This one has like a winnable function so I'm gonna try mickey because I have no idea what it is and then I think I have to try to stop the light on the bed. Can I have mickey? Okay I can't have mickey. Can I have black sugar genmai?

Okay. Oh okay it just automatically does it. Ah loss. Ah damn. All right fine. That's fine I got my black sugar genmai. I don't care. I don't care that I'm losing. It's cool. Crack open a cold one.

I was not expecting this. I'm gonna cry. It's like a a substance. I wish I could show you. It's it's kind of gritty. I think it's a rice-based beverage. There's a light brown sugar. A light like like a very healthy porridge-y kind of vibe going on. I'm completely surprised.

I did not think it was gonna be this and I don't know if I'll be able to finish it.

There is something about that texture that is really not working for me. Oh god. I'm gonna give this a three. I'm sure at some point in my life if I was dying I would really appreciate it but it's just I wasn't ready. I don't, I can't, I don't know what to do with it.

They also have a very cute retro game area so I want to check that out. It's right next to where they do all the tires and everything so let's go in.

I got my 10 yens. Let's give them a go. Are you ready? All right.

Yo home run. I'll be green. All right and then what do I do?

This is also super cute. This little coffee machine however unfortunately it is not working.

Black coffee or with sugar or with sugar and cream. So cute. There's also an old

CRT TV up there with a seahorse giving birth. Just a seahorse spitting out baby seahorses. Did you know the male seahorse holds the holds the babies? Now you do. It's the male one.

I'm gonna bet for... what is this? I have to bet for these numbers? I'll bet for the number four.

Well I do also have a scissors paper rock one here which I'll just I'll just give it a go.

This boat's name is Kamome and for one time riding it it costs 20 yen. If I get on that thing I will destroy it. I will break it into a thousand pieces. I feel like it's barely hanging on. I think they only allow one year olds to get on that thing. Good luck Kamome. I salute you.

Okay I don't think I can use my medals in here. I'm scared this would break my arm.

There's something about a metal hand. I exchanged my medals and I got six chocolate coins and I also got this okashina game collection.