2006-12-27 18:14:08 · 16 answers · asked by Japan_is_home 5 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Japan
According to the Vending Machine Manufacturers Association, there are 5,582,200 as of 2005. The total amount of the sale is about 7 trillion yen.
INFORMATION：日本自動販売機工業会
http://www.jvma.or.jp/information/5_01.html
2006-12-28 01:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Black Dog 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
In Japan, there is one vending machine to every 23 people. Japan has the highest ratio of vending machines to people in the world.
2006-12-29 01:27:49 · answer #2 · answered by null 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think there's a number that high.
Seriously, they are everywhere. In just about every city and town I visited, there were vending machines on nearly every block selling everything from cold drinks, to hot fried snacks, to batteries. I saw sake vending machines, beer vending machines, vending machines for ice cream, cigarette vending machines, and vending machines that served both hot and iced coffee. You can really get just about anything you need.
Will have to say that it was kind of nice to have things so readily available. When I was out sightseeing and found my energy starting to flag, it was great to be able to just toss back a can of iced coffee and keep going. I became so addicted to it that I started to refer to it as "liquid crack".
Didn't see the fabled pornography vending machine, though.
2006-12-28 09:11:14 · answer #3 · answered by Ravanne_1 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Don't bother counting, there are countless of vending machines in japan.
These vending machines either sell cigarettes, bottled drinks, canned drinks, or food, even umbrellas etc.
So don't bother counting, just count the categories of stuff that can be bought from a vending machine, that will do.
2006-12-28 03:38:35 · answer #4 · answered by Wyn 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is no way to even count all of them. I enjoyed buying stuff from a vending machine on the top of Mt. Fuji when I climbed it back in 2003. No joke. They are everywhere.
2006-12-28 02:17:00 · answer #5 · answered by Adam 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The vending machines of cigarettes are 650,000 in Japan.
Japan has a lot of kinds of vending machines.
(beverage,book,ticket,some foods and so on.)
I don't know how many vending machines we have.
2006-12-29 00:41:31 · answer #6 · answered by aprost6 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are lots and lots and lots of them. Seems that everywhere you look, you will run into a vending machine!
2006-12-29 08:46:14 · answer #7 · answered by Andrea 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are multiplying. Yeah.
Sooner or later the Japanese population will be out numbered by the vending machines and there will be a revolt.
We will have to fight them back by tipping them over or taking them apart with screwdrivers!!
2006-12-28 11:26:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Millions-I have heard it said that they consume the equivalent of one nuclear reactors electricity output. I once discovered one that dispensed beer at the 110 yen soft drink price-Lucky!
2006-12-28 02:38:02 · answer #9 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How much rice is in China? About the same I'd say.
2006-12-28 13:06:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋