Who needs a bartender when you can replace him with a vending machine! Japan is loaded with amazing vending machines — and in this episode, John travels with a JR Tokyo Wide Rail Pass from Tokyo to Echigo Yuzawa to sample a lot of Niigata’s best sakes from the SAKE TASTING VENDING MACHINE!!
The sake tasting vending machines are inside the train station in a place called Ponshukan. There are 120 different sakes to try.
SAKE TASTING VENDING MACHINE SYSTEM:
500 yen gets you a cup and 5 coins.
1 coin can fill the cup once.
When finished, return the sake cup.
The drinking age in Japan is 20 year old.
Getting to Echigo Yuzawa Station:
The JOETSU Shinkansen / bullet train departs from Tokyo and Ueno Stations every 20 minutes from 6am to 10pm.
It takes 80 minutes to travel the 180km to the center of the Japanese alps.
Google Map: https://goo.gl/maps/ShdTVWgs5JN2
URL:
Ponshukan
http://www.ponshukan.com/
English info: http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/location/spot/museum/ponshukan.html
NOTE: Ponshukan is closed for renovations in June 2016 reopening on June 28th.
The Tokyo Wide Pass Information:
* It replaced the Kanto Pass in 2015
* You must be non-Japanese and hold a foreign passport
* Residents and Tourists can purchase it in Japan at JR Pass Offices. There is one in Tokyo Station Marunouchi NORTH Exit.
* Good for 3 consecutive days of travel for 10,000 yen
* Not valid on the Tokaido Shinkansen and only valid in limited areas about 150-200km from Tokyo.
More Info: http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/tokyowidepass/
More Japanese Vending Machine on ONLY in JAPAN:
★ Vending Machine Restaurant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Z80J3jOao
★ Vending Machine House of Horrors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61wTXuUpkYg
★ Japanese Vending Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZmUuRG87sU
Music Credits:
Feelin Good by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100475
Artist: http://incompetech.com/
Hammock Fight by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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This show has been created and produced by John Daub ジョン・ドーブ. He’s been living and working in Japan for over 18 years and regularly reports on TV for Japan’s International Channel.
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omg Echigo-Yuzawa, from that one MXC episode!
could you visit the site of the Bataan Death March?
Bangladeshis Food culture n life style is much batter then India i must say…. We never eat like this on road in such a unhigenic way.
What is sake
I’ve never known the meanings of Nihonshu-do and Sando! Thank you for sharing 🙂
love the show wish i could come and be a part of the show or just to look around .
i finished all food one, film some more come on!!!
For someone who has never had Sake, what do you recommend for the first time?
In US terms, a dollar a cup. What do you guys think?
Won’t someone vomit after drinking to much as its uh well rice vinager
10000 yen? Why?
Everyone from Finland could taste all of those in a one go and not even get drunk.
Did you see the kid at 2:00 xDDDD
Woahh
An entire week!? Hahahaha… Gimme 3 hours..
I can drink 10 shots of different sake or eat 1 strawberry that is white
I’m at the place right now do I keep the cup I am very confused it is 2 am I missed my train
alcohol makes me vomit i just couldnt take them
With me not being an alcoholic beverage drinker, can you describe what dry and sweet would mean?
is there any way to pay you to buy stuff form me and send it to me by mail lol ? “wink wink ” lol
if you put the video at 0.5 he sounds drunk
$50 field day of Sake drinks there.
how do you not have your own show yet? travel channel needs to give you one!
I wish we had something like this i Sweden.