What's the strangest thing you have found in a Japanese vending machine?

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Julia Encarnacion

A "hello gaijin" mask -- the wearer could pretend to be a foreigner, complete with blue eyes, long slender nose, and blonde hair.

Niko

Definitely panties. Here are some things that are sold in some vending machines:

Jonny-5

A midget

CRYPTKICKER

a godzilla rookie card.

aquamoon006

I seen cigarets.

But mostly drinks. I am like where is all the food. I am at school and all there is is drink. Where is the snickers, chips, candy........
........... tabemono wo kudaisai!!!!!!

I see that all over the city.
I bought like $30.00 worth of drinks.
It was good.

Hitoshi

sword for harakiri ?
American Beef with USDA certificate of BSE infection ?

Norsehawk

its a toss up between porn or beer.

eatmyworld

Woman's panties.
This was a trip.
My friend was buying a pair too.

Christina F

It's true, I live in Japan and they have vending machines with used panties. You have to see it to believe it. Totallly weird!

*â€¢.â™¡Cynâ™¡.â€¢*

â™¡I've seen a few 'strange' (?) things in vending machines since I've been here:
RICE (!)
Batteries
Fresh flowers
*Mini toilet paper packs
*Fench fries, hot dogs, takoyaki...
(*Both of â†‘those at Service Areas)
Along with all the drink and tobacco machines.(*^o^*)
[WHY do the tobacco machines turn off at 11 pm?]
ï½žDo those cell phone charger machines at the SAs count as a vending machine, or the ones where you can get ring tones?

lamoviemaven

That would have to be my penis. Please don't ask me how it got there.....

Man_in_Japan

I live here in Japan for work and I have seen some odd stuff. Alchol, beer, porn (hardcore but all bare "pink" pubic regions are blocked by law in Japan with the floating blue dot or digital mosaic. Not for general consuption or soft porn as previous poster stated. The one that takes the cake in my opinion was the machine selling actual school girl worn panties. These included a picture of the girl wearing the panties you were buying taped on the front of the bag! This wasn't some sex shop either it was in a little hut on the side of the road next to a Coke machine and a Dydo machine! Dydo is a beverage company not a spelling error for a sex toy, just FYI.

hansolosby

Nobody said insects (to be eaten as a snack)

Also there's a machine near me that just sells onions.

jeepneyd2003

A raw steak ready to be cooked. Thought that was odd. Seen just about any kind of beverage imaginable, but never food that needed to be cooked.

Joriental

AED(Automated external defibrillator) in vending machine.
Of course not for sale.

For emergency

junkmailsucksalot

Alcohol?

K-Flo

It seems everyone covered all of the crazy things from vending machines that I have seen in Japan. But the weirdest thing I saw was not from a vending machine but from one of those claw games where you can grab a prize. The prizes were giant living beetles with huge pinchers in little plastic containers. These guys had to be 3 inches in length. There were little dishes of beetle food and water in their containers. Really strange o_O

Dionysius

Soft-porn vending machines.. the actual products are not even porn, but porn images that have been BLACKED OUT, for general viewing.. bizarre.

larcenciel4034

Lobster. Well, technically, this is not a vending machine, but more of a game. You know those games were you use a claw to grab a stuffed animal? Well in this one you just grab a lobster instead. At least this way you can eat your prize! Just search for "lobster vending" in google or yahoo images to find a picture.

I also have seen a beetle vending machine. If you want a pet beetle.