In Japan it seems you can buy almost anything from a vending machine. Here are some of the more unusual ones I've come across on my travels.
(Note to people arriving from search engines: I have never come across a "used panty vending machine", and the word on the street is that if they weren't just an urban legend, they were a passing fad of the late 80s / early 90s which now live on only in the voyeuristic ambitions of foreign media. The closest I can offer you is this new panty vending machine with what appears to be male and female "erotic" underwear.)
In Japan you're never far from a nice cuppa. Just head over to the nearest vending machine and grab a can of Royal Milk Tea for 120 yen. It comes pre-heated and contains 23% milk.
On second thoughts, don't. It tastes like - and in fact is - milky tea which has been kept warm in a can for a long time.
Vile.
Purveying small cans / cups of sake from 櫻正宗 (Sakura Masamune). Seen in Asakusa, Tokyo, in June 2005.
Located discretely outside this liquor store on the main street of a medium-sized village in Niigata Prefecture: the Condom Vending Machine.
A rice vending machine somewhere in northwestern Kyushu (2002).
While in Kyoto in 2002 I stumbled across a little roofed-over space between two buildings containing half-a-dozen vending machines. Not your normal ones, oh no: these were peddling various items which shouldn't be made available to minors. Among them the above device: I thought I'd stumbled across one of the legendary Used Panty Vending Machines, but on closer inspection it appears to be offering "his" (left) and "hers" (right) lower torso underwear of a slighly saucy nature.
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