Old School Vending with ID Check

April 3, 2005 on 12:12 pm | In Uncategorized | | Email This Post

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

Related Posts... (in theory)   Vending Machines - Hot Stuff!    Japan Vending Machine Biz    Vending Machine Fun  

Click here to Stumble Upon it!

No Comments yet »

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment

XHTML: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Study Japanese with help from J-List!
Study Japanese with help from J-List!

Renegade Motorhomes - Vegas Hotel - Loan - Credit Counseling

Powered by WordPress with Pool theme design by Borja Fernandez.
Entries and comments feeds. Valid XHTML and CSS. ^Top^