Egg Vending Machine

　　I dropped in at a bakery shop that was referred to as the best bakery shop around me. The French bread of the bakery sounded like very nice. I lost no time going there. I brought back some famous jam from Alsace in France, and wanted to eat them with real French bread. As a result, the combination of both was wonderful.
　　By the way, I found a vending machine that sold eggs. There are lots of vending machines in Japan, but I saw the egg-selling machine for the first time. I didn't buy anything, but I'll try to use it next time. As for the automatic vending machines, there are so many in Japan, but I don't remember seeing them in Germany during my one week stay. The number of automatic vending machines in Japan tells us how secure Japanese society is, I believe.
　　Additionally, there are lots of unmanned and non-mechanical vendors in Japan. Foreign tourists who find them are sure to take pictures. Then, all of them wonder if the commerce is really possible.

See also;

http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2009/11/conscience-stall-.html

http://kumo.typepad.jp/weblog/2007/09/mini-touring.html

(Vocabulary)
go straight to / lose no time (in) doing  早速～する
call in (英）立ち寄る
as a result その結果、、
remember doing sth ＜…＞したことを覚えている
He didn't even remember getting home.  彼は家に帰ったことすら覚えていなかった．
unmanned (乗り物・駅などが)無人の
commerce  商業, 商取引

Comments

[Sarah]

Anyway, I think that an egg selling vending machine sounds kind of strange. I guess it wouldn't be a problem to keep the eggs cold, but it just seems like it would have to be changed and checked every other day.

I think that Japan is a very safe and secure country. As a tourist, I would be shocked at many things that happen here, but now that I have lived here for more than a few years, all of those things seem normal. The real shock will be when we move home and everything is so different.