Funny reading this whilst I sit in Tokyo/Hanada Airport. Wish there was a vending machine here. I just spent $25 on a burger and a beer.
Yeah, it’s not exactly rural Arkansas, is it?
We have six drink vending machines on my one office floor alone that only seats 150 people.
If you were jones-ing for a burger that’s understandable. But if you’d gotten a bento box of Japanese food it would have saved you about twenty of that twenty five dollars. Eating like the locals saves money everywhere, and in my experience also reduces the chances of getting food poisoning. Not so much in Japan since they’re so obsessive about cleanliness and such perfectionists, but western style foods in Asia, especially in the hotels, can be amoebic dysentery playgrounds. Stick with what the locals eat and you’ll save your colon and a fortune.