Ticket Gate at Osaka by JanneM

Ticket vending machines at stations are really important for our life in Japan. A few days ago I found an interesting blog post called “If they made ticket vending machines at stations like…”  I’ve translated it below.

If they made ticket vending machines like…

Nintendo

You can buy a ticket if you trace the path from departure to arrival

Sony

High end machines with their self made CPU (But tickets cost a bit)

Microsoft

Input a departure station, a destination station, departure time, arrival time, which route you prefer, and choose grade of a train then you can buy it

Apple

You can only choose your destination station but somehow it will be all right

Google

Input like “A to B” then you can get a list of tickets with a map

Square Enix

You can buy it if you passed all of required missions (And can get bonus points if you get off at all the stations)

Hudson

Shout with a mic

Capcom

Beat off approaching evil attendants to get a ticket

Namco

There are additional parts to decorate your ticket (Extra fee required)

Konami

Find a hidden command to get a free ticket!

Koei

Figure out stats of attendants in each stations and develop a strategy to buy a cheaper ticket

Oracle

Execute SQL commands to get various combinations of tickets from the world largest stations DB

Adobe

You can get a ticket which is beyond your imagination (However it’s expensive)

Dwango (The company running Nico Video)

There are scrolling comments while you trying to buy a ticket like this “LOL it’s too expensive right?”

Hatena (One of a Japanese web startup company)

A dog fetches it (It’s their mascot)

Original post is here in Japanese: もしも、あの会社が駅の券売機を作ったら

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