Gacha Cafe’s bestselling yakitori onigiri is headlined with grilled chicken tossed in teriyaki sauce, charred further and ...

WTF?! Japan is home to many weird and wonderful things, including a Gacha vending machine where you can grab an Intel Core i7-8700 for about $3.25. The caveat is that the chip has some issues, but it ...

Capsule toy vending machines, or 'gacha' machines, can be found all over Japan. They dispense random toys and collectibles for a small fee, with themed machines covering everything from popular anime ...

A key that is dispensed when pressing the purchase button on the vending machine is shown along with instructions on how to retrieve the kimono in English and Japanese, together with an accompanying ...

Masashi Okusako is seen next to the "gacha" capsule vending machine for letters that he installed at Binsen Cafe, in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Oct. 4, 2023. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- A cafe here is giving ...

You feed coins into a “gacha gacha” vending machine, crank the handle and voila, you get a capsule toy. I was astounded by how sophisticated the toys had become when I visited a specialty store in ...

There are certain places in Japan where you can pretty much always find capsule toy vending machines. Electronics shops, for example, usually have a row of them near their entrance or in the corner of ...

Our reporter Yuuichiro Wasai was wandering around Harajuku the other day looking for something to eat but nothing seemed to call out to him. He scanned menus outside restaurants, searched online for ...

In an age of instant do­­pa­­­mine hits, more Koreans are chasing quick thrills through toy vending machines, or gacha – games of chance that keep them coming back for more. For about 5,000 won (RM156 ...

SEOUL – In an age of instant dopamine hits, more Koreans are chasing quick thrills through toy vending machines, or gacha – games of chance that keep them coming back for more. For about 5,000 won ...