VENDING 4 Life

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VENDING 4 Life

• Shikakui Atama
• Weekly Report 2
• Lorita Chiu Steve Tse

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Table of contents

• Week 2 Progress
• Further Information on Vending Machines
• Step By Step Guide to Using an Average Vending
  Machine
• Vending Machine of the Week
• Other Vending Machines
• Afterthoughts and Conclusions
• Plans for Next Week

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Week 2 progress

• Because of a long, but enjoyable 3-day home-stay,
  this week seems to have flown by and we couldnt
  go to as many places as we previously planned
• However, traveling to a couple new places such as
  Odaeba we have found a couple of new vending
  machines unique ones indeed but nothing too
  spectacular yet

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FURTHER INFO ON VENDING machines

• Despite the fact that Japanese is a language that
  seems to add a new loan word from another
  language everyday to its vocabulary, its
  surprising to find that it has organically
  created its own word for vending machine it
  comes with its own kanji and actually makes
  perfect sense
• ????? (ji-dou-han-bai-ki)

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Step by Step guide to using an average
vending machine

• Introduction to Guide
• Since we did a translation of products last time,
  this time we decided to do something different
  with respects to language
• This week, we have provided instructions along
  with close-up pictures on how to use an average
  vending machine, a drink vendor in this example
• The instructions are provided in full Japanese
  with English translations for everybody to learn

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Instructions (1)

• ?????????? (??)
• First, put in/insert your money,

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Instructions (2)

• ???? ?????????? (??) (?)
• Next, push the button,

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Instructions (3)

• ???? ???????????? (????)(?)
• Next, take your drink,

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Instructions (4)

• ????????????,???????. (?)
• And then, take your change.

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Vending machine of the week
Located right in the onsen in Odaeba, this unique
machine dispenses packaged underwear.

• Machine Type
• Underwear VendorUsefulness
• 1 2 3 4
  5Creativity
• 1 2 3 4
  5Description
• For all those who have lost or just want a
  new pair of underwear, this machine is perfect
  for them. It comes with a variety of patterns,
  colors and sizes to cater to different
  individuals.Comments
• As far as we have seen, nothing of this
  sort exists in Canada. As reserved as the
  Japanese are, I would say Canadians are more
  embarrassed about purchasing underwear in public.
  Most unique machine found this week!

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Other vending Machines (1)

• Machine Type
• Cold Treats VendorUsefulness
• 1 2 3 4
  5Creativity
• 1 2 3 4
  5Description
• For all the baseball fans that want to
  stray away from all the greasy fast food sold at
  the stadium, they can go for a quick cold treat
  of an Asian flavor. this machine offers a cheap
  and delicious solution.Comments
• Ice cream machines are also pretty abundant
  in Canada, but they definitely do not offer lemon
  ice cream cake! Trying the lemon cake was a good
  choice, it was full of taste and worth the 150
  yen. One thing to note is that unlike the ice
  cream machines in Canada that make that loud
  sucking noise, these ones are much quieter.

Neither the most useful or exciting machine, this
cold treat dispenser is located right in the
baseball stadium.
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Other vending Machines (2)
Found in one of the bigger alleyways near
Mukogaoka-Yuen train station, this is the only
newspaper vending machine we have seen thus far
in Japan.

• Machine Type
• Cold Treats VendorUsefulness
• 1 2 3 4
  5Creativity
• 1 2 3 4
  5Description
• Very useful for places where there is no
  newspaper/magazine store. This machine dispenses
  three different daily newspapers for a cheap 130
  to 140 yen. Best for those in a hurry to get on
  the train and in for a long ride.Comments
• Canada has newspaper vending machines as
  well, albeit a lot less stylish, yet a lot more
  space consuming and insecure. Japanese newspaper
  vending machines look a lot nicer and prevent
  theft of additional newspapers, unlike the
  Canadian ones where you can open the gate for a
  dollar and take as many as your greedy heart
  desires.

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Afterthoughts and conclusions

• We have come to realize that all vending machines
  weve seen are placed in very appropriate places
  underwear machines in the onsen, drink and
  tabacco machines in the streets, gacha gacha in
  toy stores, etc. We cant expect to just walk
  down streets and find special machines. Hence,
  we have new plans for next week in order to
  search out what we really came to see.

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Plans for next week

• We have searched much of the outside streets in a
  lot of the major popular places in Tokyo.
  However, no interesting machine has been found
  just more and more drink and tobacco ones. Thus,
  next week with more time and home-stay out of the
  way, we are planning to go inside places such as
  stores, game centers, coffee shops, etc.
  Hopefully there is more inside than out!
• We have plans to visit Akihabara and Disney Sea
  for the upcoming week, hence we will be able to
  check out the anime district as well as a theme
  park in our search for unique machines.