When is a vending machine not a vending machine?

When it’s a robot barrista, of course!

We had an encounter with this one in Kawasaki during a Splatoon stamp rally/hunt.



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About 400yen a cup, unless you go for the primo beans.

No lattes or latte art. Yet…

I trained my phone/camera on number 9 and waited patiently to see if there would be anything of the dispensing process I could photo. Then got a tug on the arm from my daughter. I had misread the slip, it had already been served out of number 6 (or was it vice versa? I forget)