News and veggies

One morning we came across what seemed to be an unusual bank of vending machines. Two of us had taken a Keio New Line train several stops out from the Shinjuku station, in downtown Tokyo, to the Chitose-Karasuyama station. I have yet to find it on the Tokyo map. It wasn't the suburbs by any means, but certainly a different part of town.

As part of an interesting walkabout, we came upon these vending machines along the sidewalk that reminded me of a 1960s-vintage automat cafeteria in New York City, but with a twist. Inside each little vending cubby was a newspaper with a plastic bag of green veggies sitting on top of it. Soybeans? Who knows? One more delightful sign that we were somewhere far from home.

Click on the photo above to see it larger, and maybe you can tell me what vegetable you get for 100 yen.