At this point, we can all agree that coffee is one of the absolute must-haves for most of us. Which is not necessarily a problem - not until you have your caffeine fix at hand, anyway. But what happens when you’re out in the street, with no reliable coffee shops nearby, and have nothing to replenish yourself with? It’s a hot day, you desperately need a pick-me-up, and a tall, foggy glass of iced coffee would seem like a spring of eternal life at that moment, but there is no help to be found anywhere…
Well, if that terribly exaggerated scenario does occur, first of all, wow, you must love drama even more than we do, but second of all, you are definitely not in Japan, cause guess what, in Japan, people don’t really have the issue of not having coffee at hand at any given moment. Why? Well, because of two main reasons, actually. One - Japan is the homeland of canned coffee, and two - they sell canned coffee in vending machines - actually, in 4.9 million vending machines all over the country, to be specific.
Yes, you read that correctly - in Japan, there are 4.9 million spots giving you instant access to the source of our lives itself - premium quality coffee! That might seem like a lot at first (and, well, it is), but it’s not going to be as surprising once we tell you all about the history of canned coffee and its importance to the daily lives of Japanese citizens.
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