I have been watching where the only "Bonkarees rice vending machine" in Japan is still in operation

There are convenience stores in the metropolitan area within a few minutes walking distance, there are convenience stores with extensive parking lot in places that are not so, when you can get your favorite food and drinks for 24 hours, There may not be as many scenes "vending machine" as useful as before. Among the numerous "vending machines", now it is the only one in Japan "Bonkarei rice vending machineI heard the story that Tokushima prefecture is still operating, so I decided to go see it.

The place is here, Awa city, Tokushima prefecture. It is about 30 minutes from the front of Tokushima station.


Tokushima Prefectural Highway No. 12 Naruto Ikeda Line (Festival Highway)As you run to the west, you will see a building like a game center on the left hand side past the road to Aki Driving School and Awa High School.


This is the target "Coin Snack Imperial Palace 24"is. As the name suggests, it is open 24 hours a day, the left side shows the game corner and the right side shows the vending machine corner.


A vending machine corner is like this. Although it is drink center, the second from the right is Lotte's gum vending machines, the right end is "Atom glovesVending machine.


Vending machines are staggering on the left side ...


Food-based vending machines line up from around the shadow of the building.


There 's a plate called "Please curry rice quickly while warm."


Discovery, this is Bonkarei rice vending machine. It is drawn in baseball like a uniform figureRaku Kitakiri.


"Bon Curry Rice"It is a bonus curry with a rice, and vending machines were deployed nationwide in the 1970s. It is now rare that food vending machines are considerably reduced and it is rare to see curry and rice vending machines, but among them "Bon Curry Rice Vending Machine" seems to be the only one in the domestic market .


The price is 300 yen per piece, you can choose medium spicy and dry.


Put the money and press the button, the product falls instantly.


Like the station lunch, the top of the container is wrapped in paper.


When peeling it, you can see that the curry retort pouch was set on the rice container. However, although it is "Bonkare vending machine", it is not Otsuka food's Bon Curry, but House food curry curry ......?


Anyway, now it is warm to eat curry first. I take the lid container lid and peel off the vinyl.


Then put the opened retort curry ......


done.


If you put out around 500 yen at a convenience store you can buy chilled curry rice, but we are not warming the rice with the range, so happiness that we can eat freshly Hokuhoku is great.


Curry itself also opens the retort pouch by myself, but it fits well with this atmosphere, it was impressive if it could be eaten at 300 yen.


By the way, the whole view of the eating and drinking space is like this.


"Well, if it is dry, is it? ..." I tried to purchase a dry bottle just to make sure, but this was also a yuya curry.


The amount of rice is large, so when you eat 2 cups your stomach is already bad.


As a result of examination, it was said that in 2014 it was supposed to put the curry of the house instead of Bon Curry. "Nostalgic vending machine ~ Showa retro vending machine corner of tasteIn the site called 'July 2010 and April 2012While visiting the coin snack Imperial Palace 24In this article you can see the appearance when it was still a bonus curry.

Beside the Bonkaree rice vending machine, it is a Nissin cup noodle · Donbae vending machine ... ...


Like Tokushima "Kanchan Yakisoba" and "Kanchan noodoru" were lined up.


This is a udon · soba vending machine.Fuji ElectricAlthough it is not as much as a vending machine of a beverage type, it seems to be left behind all over the country.


Two kinds of goods are kitsune udon and tempura udon, both of which are 250 yen.


There seems to be no udon coming out, and at that time it was said that I wanted to contact with the interphone.


The interphone installed on the vending machine.


"Coca-Cola vending machine" itself is not unusual, but this is a type exclusively for bottles.


There is a bottle opener on the left side of the bill insertion slot.


The impression differs because the shape of the outlet is different from ordinary vending machines, but the mechanism is exactly the same.


Because the bottle collecting box is placed on the vending machine ......


Let's drink it on the spot when you pull out the spot.


I thought that all vending machine corners of this type had been defeated by the convenience stores, but the opposite of this coin snack castle 24 was a coin launderetement that refurbished the building which seems to be only a former convenience store did. Is it that the vending machine won the convenience store?


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By the way, I decided to visit Tokushima because there are other kinds of coin snacks and vending machines other than drinks in Tokushima. First of all, it is "Root Kamoike" where I went ahead west of the prefectural road No. 12 from Coin Snack Imperial Palace for 10 minutes.


There is a vending machine corner similar to Coin Snack Gosho 24.


However, it seems that there was a cup noodle vending machine in the past, but it has been removed several years ago, and now there was only a vending machine for drinks.

Next, "Mikane Kaneka" in Mima-gun, town of Mima-gun. It is along National Route 192 (Iyo Highway).


This is a self-udon store ......


On the left side of the shop, "hand-rolling kitsudon vending machine" is set up.


The price is tempura udon, 300 yen per day. This time zone was sold out. The Tokushima line passes through the shop right behind but it is 2 km from the nearest Kojima station.


Lastly, "Yokota vending machine corner" of Toyohama Tachibancho Anan City. There is only a vending machine, but it is also registered in Google Maps.


The surroundings are industrial areas like this. At the right edge of the photo, it is surrounded by a block fence ......


It is a vending machine corner.


This side is a drink system, but there is a novelty vending machine in the back.


We are watching several, made by Fuji Electric.


Since this was the last place to visit, I decided to buy tempura udon. The state of 25 seconds from purchase to completion is like this.

Buy with udon vending machine ~ Cooking ~ Completion - YouTube


From inside the vending machine body, take out disposable chopsticks and 七 つ.


For a moment, it looks like udon noodles ... ...


The ingredients were concentrated on the bottom side.


Clear the Shichigi.


I prefer udon noodle than when chilling frozen udon. Because the tempura was sunk in the soup, it collapses as a whole.


It was just before we finished eating what I realized that shrimp was actually shrimp.


By the way, there was also a coffee vending machine in the atmosphere of a squid ceremonial decoration in the rows of udon vending machines.


Cocoa 50 yen, ginger hot water 30 yen, American coffee 50 yen, cafe au lait 50 yen, standard coffee 50 yen. The second from the left, what is out of stock "Braziolore" is ....


Regarding "Bonkarei rice vending machine", which is the only country in the world that came to sell curry which is not Bon Curry, since the owner possesses some of the main body for taking parts, he says that "because it failed" There seems to be nothing.

However, as the cup noodle vending machine that was there a few years ago has disappeared, those who want to see, want to try, have a chance to find opportunities and have already gone there soon Maybe it is good.