I took this photo while on the train in Osaka, originally just because I
liked the view. While I don't think I quite captured the atmosphere I
wanted (I'll blame the lack of wide angle lens on my phone), I did happen
to catch two interesting vending machines. I'm not sure whether they
belong to the izakaya on the corner or not. The izakaya itself seems to be
fairly famous because of their ¥1 sake, there are a bunch of videos about
it on youtube too. With that said, I was unable to find better pictures of
the vending machines online with the simple searches I did (once again
they seem relatively new, google maps streetview doesn't have them yet).
At first I thought that the left one seems to be alcohol, but after
looking at it a bit more, it turns out it sells ponzu sauce. The top text
says "if [...] your money back", the condition unfortunately blocked by
another sign. Luckily searching for the specific ponzu sauce I was able to
find
an article about this type of machine. To summarise the article, the wending machine sells ponzu sauce
connected to a (now closed?) fugu hotpot restaurant called toraya. The
text at the top says: if it's no good you get your money back!
The vending machine on the right is some kind of trading card vending
machine. Once again, I can't read much more than that about what kind of
cards are exactly sold because of the lack of pixels in my photo.
この自販機を撮る時は、大阪の電車に乗っていた。もともと雰囲気がいいと思った記憶があるから撮ることにしたけど、携帯はワイドレンズがないから、よくアレンジできていないようだ。運よく同時に面白い自販機と店を撮った。自販機は角の居酒屋の物なのかどうか分からないけど、1円で買える日本酒があるために、店はかなり有名で、たくさんのユーチューブ動画もある。ところが自販機は有名じゃなくて、動画でもストリートビューでも見えない。
左手は酒を売りそうだと思ったけど、良く見たらぽんずを売っていて、ネットでこの記事を見つけた。記事によると「とらや」というもう閉店したフグ鍋の店のぽんずを売っている。自販機の上の看板は「何々かったら金返す！」と書いてあって、写真で「何々」は他の看板で遮っているけど、記事のおかげで「何々」は「アカン」と分かってきた。
右手の自販機はトレカ自販機だけど、写真で良く見えないから、どんなトレカが買える分からない。
Japan has such a great track record with public order and cleanliness of
public spaces that it becomes a fun challenge to find the outliers. Here
we can see that even in Japan some vending machines can't escape a bit of
graffiti and virtually being barricaded by parked bicycles.
日本は清潔な道や公園で有名だから、汚い物を探すのは楽しい挑戦になる。ボーナス自販機は落書きがある珍しい自販機だ。その上に自転車も散らかっているから、ほとんど寄れない。
