Where does Sven buy his cans of coffee?

Oooh mighty vending machine, thy glory hath no bounds. The Japanese vending machine is a completely different brand of de-lovely than it's American counterparts. While the food/snack vending machine, often found in American high schools or health clubs (ironically), seems less implemented, the beverage variety is highly advanced and widely implemented. I mean, REALLY widely! Like almost every street-corner has a couple of drink machines. And, you can't even call them soda machines; probably the most prominent beverages are cans of coffee. After that would be green tea or sports drinks, and then other odds and ends like Coke or orange juice. Whereas an American alternative would house about 8 or so buttons which really only give you about 4 to 6 choices of different sodas that are all of the same maker, one Japanese vending machine usually houses about 18 or so different choices, of its 30 odd buttons. Not only this, but the Japanese machines offer both HOT and COLD beverages in the same machine (and corn soup that you can drink from a can). The picture at the top has only cold beverages (as represented by the blue button and cold written in Japanese) the picture at the bottom shows both hot and cold options (red vs blue above the buttons). The other thing is that you won't ever find just one vending machine alone. I'm not sure why, since they often carry the same drinks. Perhaps competition between different vending machine companies. The other thing you might notice from the picture at the bottom is that the smaller vending machine is a BEER vending machine!! BEER, in a vending machine!! In US this would be pretty unheard of. Here it is very commonplace. Most of them don't even have any warning note for minors not to purchase and partake in products of the machine. So anyway, anyone who finds themselves in need of a drink one night while wondering the streets of Japan when all the shops are closed (except for Seven-11, but we'll ignore that) you can always find a vending machine with whatever you're looking for.
One last note: on the subject of the food/snack vending machines, they do exist, but where they do, they are much more advanced than what I'd expect in US. I have eaten fried chicken and potato wedges that were prepared by a vending machine. I put in my money, pressed the button, it cooked and spat out the food to me with a fork and pair of chopsticks and probably even told me to have a nice day in Japanese. ;)