I guess Japanese vending machines are so good for sell products. because vending machines never miss the check if you pay and not missing what the products they should give us.Perhaps human would miss the check.
... I want to the vending machine miss the check if it might be cheap.
Anyway,Japanese vending machines are so clever and do not to miss check or product. Maybe two drink are gotten from vending machine only one coin, that would very few accident.
they would be call robot not only machines, I think.The machine have no smile or no laugh or no humor, no mistake,so it should be no interesting any more.
By the way, i have a surprise about vending machine of drink recently. Because I found in the machine have some interesting technology.
Long time ago about 40 years when I was a kid, if drinks might be empty in the machine, it use to inform us there are no drink in it with small light on the switch, until drinks fill in the machine. So you cannot buy.
But, nowadays it would not be very rare case. the empty of drink don't occur. Recently I have known the reason the no empty with vending machine, and had surprise.
Now vending machines in Japan are connected with many equipment. and the company of the drinks is monitoring the machines. And if it would be empty or almost none, the stuff of the company come on to get in the drinks. Then you can buy drink again.
So there are many high technology in the vending system, and it helps the company for smooth work. But I have a little dislike to the system, because they should not have any miss.
If the system had opportunity minor mistake, the machine take out two drinks by one coin. And having a little poor, I might be a little happy, if the machine had a miss.
2. Do you know Japanese vending machine?
You know our country has a lot of technology, and many kind of vending machine. For example, book, hamburger or cup noodle. And you can buy the products that you want, by almost auto.I guess some vending machine would you have never seen, so you will confuse. But almost vending machine might be Japanese culture. So it will be good experience that you buy something.
If you could visit our country, please use a lot of auto equipment like vending machine. That would a little interesting experience.
3. How to buy from drink vending machine
In Japan many products are sold by vending machine. So knowledge of using vending machine is important. Because vending machine doesn't explain how to buy in usual. And if you are not good at speaking Japanese, I think you will confuse. So in this part, I will explain, to use drink's vending machine.3-1. Confirm the vending machine.
First of all, you should confirm the vending machine could sell the drinks or not. Otherwise, you might lose money.The points of confirming are that the vending machine can sell and that the drink you want is in or not.
The direction of vending machine is to confirm is a lamp "hatsubaityu" would putting on. If "hatsubaityu" lamp is putting on, you can buy. But when the lamp is off, you can't buy. Then the drink you want to buy is in or sold out. If you see the lamp "urikire", the drink is sold out.
This means you can buy it.
This means sold out.
3-2. Preparing money
Secondly, you should prepare the money. Actually, Japanese vending machines are high performance. However, without the coin of 10 yen, 50 yen, 100 yen, 500 yen or 1000 yen bill, you could not buy. The coin of 1 yen, 5 yen, the bill of 5000 yen or 10000 yen can't use. So, I recommend you to prepare the coins and billsEspecially, 1000 yen bill is very useful outside of to use vending machine. Taxi, Bus, drivers receive payment, but by 10000 yen driver can't receive. Then, he might say " Sorry I don't have change. Do you have a 1000 bill?" So you should have 1000 yen bills.
By the way, some vending machine can receive IC card. By using IC card, you can buy without take out the wallet.
Put the money in.Only 10,50,100,500 coin and 1000 bill are OK.
If you cancel to buy or get a change, you should orange small handlebar down.
IC card is OK.
3-3. Buying
Choosing a drink and push the button. And get change if there are.
4. Sometimes there are economic drinks
There is a difference between drinks prices. For example a drink is 120 yen but another one is 100 yen. So, recommendable is economic. And sometimes there are vending machine sell only economic one.Then why do you recognize the vending machine would sell economic drinks?
Usually, the vending machine that has economic drinks, there is a label that the vending machine is economic. For example the drinks are 100 yen. You can buy economic one.
Then 100 yen drink's vending machine is like bellow. There are the labels that is written "100".
economic drinks (100 yen)
