Small crises averted thanks to Japanese Convenience
I broke my tooth brush this morning. I needed to get a new one. 10 steps and 300 yen later it was all sorted. You can get amlost anything in from a vending machine here. Someone told that there is a ratio of about 20 people to each vending machine here in Tokyo - I don't know how true that is but I wouldn't be surprised.
posted by meta_zen @ 1:58 AM
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3 Comments:
Yep, I'd read that statistic somewhere too. I have to give a lecture on Tokyo soon so I might use it. Or maybe I should just hook up to your blog for the session. Am enjoying your tales meta-zen (and thanks also for the recent email).
PS Speaking of vending machines - have you seen any of the mythic used schoolgirl panties ones often referred to?
NO, the are surprisingly elusive - and I have a very vague recollection that the goverenment was working to have them removed (the vending machines of course). The weirdest thing I have seen in a vending machne has been batteries, only because they were in the most random places. These particular vending machines tended to be in small lane ways between tiny house - I tried to work out their context with in the landscape with no luck.
I will most likely be staying in a capsule hotel later this week, so there might be some other interesting machines there. Aparently there are machines where you can get a complete change of clothes.
Sorry, didn't mean to emphasis the "No" there, it is these wacky Japanese keyboards where it takes you five mintues just to find the "@"
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