Old School Vending with ID Check
Posted on 03. Apr, 2005 @ 12:12 pm by harvey in Culture Views: 225
I was in this shady onsen (hot springs) town in Nagano, and I found this vending machine for alcohol out on the street.
Have any of you guys ever seen one of these before?
There are vending machines which sell beer all over the place in Japan, but this machine is a little out of the ordinary.
This machine actually requires you to enter your ID and verify your age before you can get your Asahi Super Dry, or Sapporo Ichiban. Even has Chu-Hai! Yum. Kinda cool huh? I wonder if this would be able to read Gaijin ID Cards too…
The weird thing is, I have never seen a machine which checks for ID before. All of the other alcohol vending machines I have seen will vend to anyone who puts a coin in the slot.
Another weird thing is that this vending machine looks very old. It’s as if a long time ago, they were using machines with this ID check feature, but the idea flopped so they gave up.
I’m not sure about this though… If anyone knows let me know!
-Harvey
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