A Geek in Japan

Food

Kit Kat Varieties

Nestlé Japan usually releases different Kit Kat varieties depending on the year season. My favorite one is the green tea Kit Kat.

Kit Kat

Another marketing strategy is to sell certain varieties of Kit Kat only in some provinces. This way when people travel around Japan, they notice the specific varieties of the regions and even buy them as a present-souvenir for friends back home. This is the map of the different kinds of Kit Kat around Japan:

Kit Kat
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The most desired Kit Kat version in Japan (according to this poll) is the “yubari melon” flavor one.

Kit Kat
The Yubari Melon (夕張メロン) Kit Kat is at the same time on of the most difficult varieties to get.

Kit Kat
This one is a purple sweet potato (紅いも) variety that can only be found in Okinawa and Kyushu.

Kit Kat

Technology

Low-tech Hamburger Vending Machine

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date December 18, 2011

It looks like this other hamburger vending machine but it is a lot more “manual” and has several use modes. It’s something that can’t be explained, you have to watch the video:

Other posts about vending machines in Japan:

Photography

Polaroid

Some months ago a girl from Yokohama was so kind to send me a Polaroid ONE600 as a present, so that’s how my “analogization” process continued; a process that mysterious forces started in order to fight against my digital life. The first trip of my Polaroid was to the Ise shrine, where it took its first picture:

I love the colors it captures, the soft contrast and the feeling of having a physical photo in your hands seconds after taking the photo. The problem is that no more Polaroid films are being produced, it seems like Sumitomo bought the patents and has kept them in a forgotten drawer somewhere. My friend, Sara, still had some films that she bought some years ago and kept them in a fridge (it seems it is the best way to preserve films during long periods of time). A couple of photos turned out bad, most likely because the chemical components had “expired”, but the rest turned out pretty well:

This one with greener colors was taken with Sara’s SX-70, a much older Polaroid.