{"id":5334,"date":"2026-08-10T17:45:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:45:24","slug":"a-new-vending-machine-on-the-tokaido-shinkansen-platform-at-shin-osaka-station-sells-cups-of-ice-rock-ice-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/a-new-vending-machine-on-the-tokaido-shinkansen-platform-at-shin-osaka-station-sells-cups-of-ice-rock-ice-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"A new vending machine on the Tokaido Shinkansen platform at Shin-Osaka Station sells cups of ice (Rock Ice Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JR Central Retailing Plus (JR\u6771\u6d77\u30ea\u30c6\u30a4\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u30fb\u30d7\u30e9\u30b9) installed it on Platform 27, near the Car 6 boarding position, with sales starting August 7, 2026. The machine is a Fuji Electric FFS107WFXU1 freezer model stocked exclusively with the ice cups from Kokubo Ice Refrigeration (\u5c0f\u4e45\u4fdd\u88fd\u6c37\u51b7\u8535). Each cup costs 220 yen and payment is cashless only (transit IC cards or barcode payments; no cash).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The idea addresses a practical need: ordinary cars on the Tokaido Shinkansen no longer have onboard beverage sales, and long rides (e.g., Osaka\u2013Tokyo takes about 2.5 hours) can leave drinks lukewarm. Passengers buy a drink elsewhere in the station, then grab ice right before boarding so they can pour it over the drink once seated and keep it cold longer. The ice cups were already popular at some station shops, which prompted the dedicated platform machine for last-minute convenience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar ice-cup machines (or strong demand for them) have appeared or drawn attention at other stations, such as Shin-Yokohama earlier in 2026. It\u2019s a small but characteristically Japanese convenience upgrade for summer travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JR Central Retailing Plus (JR\u6771\u6d77\u30ea\u30c6\u30a4\u30ea\u30f3\u30b0\u30fb\u30d7\u30e9\u30b9) installed it on Platform 27, near the Car 6 boarding position, with sales starting August 7, 2026. The machine is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info-news-and-more-in-the-latest-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5336,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions\/5336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chilldiscounters.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}