Vintage in modern day Parlour??

[hanabi]

I saw this on my YouTube travels and thought I'd share

YouTube - Why I hate pachinko.

I was amazed to see a Vintage Pachinko in the window / display of a Pachinko Parlour!!

Looks like a Nishijin and it's been rigged to flick the lever to fire the balls

I wonder how many other Vintages are still enjoying life in the modern day Parlours??

[mudfud]

like a player piano, eh? a player pachinko.

[johnnynormal510]

Its odd how you can see some place far away, and feel like you belong there...

(sigh!) Ahh Hail the Ginza Strip.

[mudfud]

we gotta plan a pachitalk tour of pachinko in japan some day...

I would love to see factories, museums and play a little pachinko in one of those noisy parlors!

[Sigrah]

I'm in!! My wife wanted to go to Bali a few years ago, we didn't go because of all the bombings. Japan seems safer. Is that a fair assumption or am I misinformed?

[lasse-pin]

Perhaps passing by Sweden on the way
With a shipping of nice pachinkos

[johnnynormal510]

I was thinking the same thing... ROAD TRIP! (Seriously!)

Maybe we should start another thread on Locations to Visit.
I think I could afford to go if I stopped buying pachinko machines for a year...
(Who am I kidding? I'll go without FOOD first! )

...e...

[Sigrah]

Just for the heck of it I did a search for Tokyo Travel Packages to get an idea of what was out there. This is the first thing that popped up.

Asia Transpacific Journeys - Experience Japan: Luxury Travel & Tours

Looks pretty interesting. Small group tour (18 people), 13 days, $8995 per person. Looks like the flight would be around $1,000 from the east coast. (thought it would be more)

I bet we could plan our own tour and do our own thing a lot cheaper.

[Sigrah]

Didn't edit fast enough. Replying to my own post. I did some more searching and this one seems a lot more reasonable. From $2700 for 7 days, air included.

Globus Tours : Tokyo & Kyoto - Standard 2010

Ron