Clean drinking water as a public utility is actually one of the basics of civilization.

Hi John. Very cool to see this water dispenser offering free water. I think this works great in Japan but other places I feel would get vandalized and destroyed. Sadly there are people with no love for beautiful things like this. One of the many things that make Japan such a beautiful place to live.

It would be interesting to see if this water dispenser was only installed for summer months to help prevent heat stroke incidents, and then removed in the winter so the water supply doesn't freeze up.

I am sooooo happy that there is free water in Tokyo. I hope millions of plastic water bottles are saved.

"'Mizu' is water" 😂😂 John's like thanks for the tip bruh

The U.S. has water fountains in parks and public buildings and lobbies of private buildings and malls. But I don't like using them, especially the ones at parks, as those never seem clean. For Tokyo these seem ideal, they are bottle fillers, not fountains and culturally Japanese people likely won't ruin them.

Lack of public, accessible, widely available water sources is something modern cities should be dealing with...it is fundamental to society and governments do a piss poor job with it. My city, only just last year, started a pilot project of hooking temporary fountains to fire hydrants. We as as society have done a poor job leveraging access to this fundamental resource. Glad to see tiny steps in the right direction.

I think this is more of an effort by the government to save plastic (and material usage and logistics services and greenhouse gas emissions from them more broadly) rather than to save consumers money, though saving money is a bonus.

Dumping water on a tree that already has a caretaker and saying "let's not waste... let's conserve..." is some of the dumbest sh!t I have seen so far this year.

Great suggestion for free water 😊 - MyMizu app: apps.apple.com/us/app/mymizu/id1480535233 to find water refill spots! Cool 💦!!

Super cool on water. Saves on emergency room trips for heat exhaustion and dehydration. Happy Fourth 🎉 to those celebrating!

We have them in airports and some big stores and offices . They are promoting it as using less plastic bottles.

Thats a great idea! We need those in Florida!! ☆☆☆☆☆ Thinking Arizona and Texas would be on board too right about now "-)

In India We have ro(reverse osmosis) water vending machines at railway stations and some airports but the design is very complex as in India water is almost free everywhere as anyone can get free drinking water anywhere

I don't imagine it will do too much harm, maybe the vendors won't be able to sell water anymore, but there's plenty of other things they can and do sell! That's really awesome that they are offering clean, public drinking water for free! That is just... incredible.

that’s a great way to lessen plastic bottle’s usage ✨👍🏼✨ way to go Japan

I don't know much about other cities, but in the metropolitan areas of Greater Sacramento and the Bay Area (who both get their water primarily from local snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains), proximity-activated water bottle fillers as part of a refrigerated filtered drinking fountain machine are commonly located indoors within public libraries, other government buildings, tertiary education institutes, shopping malls, power centres, and even fitness clubs. Those dispensers are promoted as a way to save disposable bottles, and they have an LCD counter on them which is based on the lifetime volume of water dispensed, not the number of fill-ups. They are manufactured by Elkay. I've also seen Mudrock, but those are not refrigerated, not sensor-activated, probably do not have a filter, and do not have a counter on the number of bottles saved.

Every country should do this. Amazing.

I never buy water. In Germany you can even make sparkling water at home using a handy applience.

16:30 they guy telling John... Mizu is water! I think John knew that...🤣

Being from Florida, a lot of the bottled water comes from the natural springs of our State . I've always enjoyed tap water at home and toward the end of my vacation I take a chance on the local water, because you can tell a lot about a city or country by it's tap water

Here in Bogota tap water comes out drinkable and from what we have heard it’s one of the best in the world. Free access to water is a basic human right. So happy to see those dispensers in Tōkyō ^^

I got a furoshiki cloth to carry my food and shopping home. Iright now im hiking the northern alps. So beautiful!

Vending machines and public water fountains have been peacefully coexisting for a loooong time. I don't think vending machines have anything to worry about.

It should be nobody should charge for such basic necessities water for bathing or washing or unfiltered water can be charged for but drinking water should always be free

I have to say, Tokyo tapwater is fine. Also in all the other cities I've been, the water is fine. I refuse to pay for water if the tapwater is perfectly drinkable. I always filled 2 isolated bottles with tapwater when i got back at the hotel and put them in the door of the fridge. So I had cold water the next day.

I like the design of the water machine. We used to have the old water fountains too,but I never liked them because I used to see people putting their mouths on the spigot.

Happy 4th of July, John and all American friends! Thank you for the support and solidarity to us, Ukraine! Please don't ever forget those military men and women stands on guard of your Independence. Wish you all the best and let you never know what war is.

Yeh we have them here in Sydney oz!! there great!!! And it’s good too see Tokyo doing that too!!!! Can’t beat it less plastic waste and it’s FREE!!!! 💧 👍🏻 I never buy bottle water!!!

John can make an interesting video from any topic. I wish I had this skill. 😊

Free public drinking water. That's great! Some countries have done so.

We have those all over San Francisco. Our water tastes great!

Absolutely love this! Alrdy planning our trip for Japan. I'd like to know where we could find this or other water filling stations in Tokyo because we know there aren't any public garbage bins outdoors. So we plan to find these filling stations as we sightsee. Thank you!

I've tried tap water in japan...it's not bad, not delicious also. The tap water did not taste like choke full of chlorine, flouride, and whatever else they put in our drinking water here in Cali

Clean water will be important in the future.

In the Netherlands you can drink water from the tap and it tastes almost the same as if you buy a bottle.

people will still buy water. more convenient rather than carry a bottle with you. And people will also want something else than water. Vending machines are safe

Thanks for the tip for mymizu. Just seen that this is not a Japan/Tokyo exclusive. I'm in germany and it shows me locations in my town and all around europe if you zoom out. I don't know if those are just "normal" drinking fountains - or machines like that in Tokyo. But it sure will be useful on holiday trips to have a backup source of public water 😁

This is what a civilized society looks like!

If I go I'd try to use the free Tokyo water as often as possible, but if a brand does a Collab with an anime I'm familiar with, I might buy it once 😂

I was waiting for it...John drinking the water and turn to a zombie. The government is after John...

Remind me if the old Limmy skit about bottled water

wait.. now that i'm watching this video i realize that i rarely saw any water fountains or water refill stations like this one when i was in tokyo. in toronto, there are water refill stations (not the tap, the actual machine that you show in the video) in a lot of stations and malls so i can refill my water bottle anywhere. in tokyo, i carried around my 1L water bottle but once I finished that, i was done. I'm not buying a water bottle, water should be free. this is a good first step... shoutout to the person who recommended the MyMizu app

I never ever buy water at home. When I travel, though, even when the country has good clean water, it takes a long time for my gut to get used to the local water, so unless I want to spend too much time of my trips in toilets, I have to buy bottled water for a few weeks.

Hi, thinking about it… here in France, in rural area, my city and most of them have small pods, water pumps, with undrinkable water, direct from underground… The main purpose is hydration for plants, flowers in graveyards…. They are old, fashioned, but useful & good. ⛲️⛲️

I miss Japan. We were here last year. I remember visiting the Shake Shack a couple of times.

Familiar spot. Visited there on March and have another trip booked for November. Yurakucho will be my "mainstation" for the next trip (last time it was Shimbashi). As far as water goes, tap water is just fine. Actually most big brand name waters are tap water, but marketing makes them seem "greater than life" experience (surprise).

I had my first trip to Asia from NA last year (Singapore) and the lack of public water was noticeable. I had, wrongly, assumed - especially in such a rich nation as Singapore - that such would be readily available given the heat climate. Such a fundamental resource. If your city is advanced enough ot have fire hydrants there is zero reason why it shouldn't have water dispensers along side. (NA is no better, it simply suprised me that in a country so rich and hot that this isn't standard)

Very neat!

love your vids John, I was there in Tokyo in Mar - april

You could share the link to the Tokyo Metro Government Bureau of Waterworks that shows where all of the so-called drinking stations are...

I worked in a company where they had those water fountain bottle fillers it's really cool So it's basically a water fountain free water like everybody has but it's just you bring your own bottle and fill it this I think started with covid and people not sharing water fountains

Drink Vending Machines will NEVER DIE. I live for exploring vending machines when in Japan...LOL. Seriously, they will survive with fewer machines for sure.

when i went to Tokyo last november i drank water straight from the tap to fill cups or bottles. tasted better than water from my own tap.

I always believed one should never pay for something that is free like water.

I still use water fountains in USA. In fact have them at work. and still use them to fill bottles. they do bother me though because i feel like they aren't as clean.

I want that in my city ... lax airport banned the sell of single use water bottles ... ooh I luv that there is an app for free Tokyo water

We have them around college school campuses

You are hilarious John sharing your water with the tree! Of course, that is actually something I would do also! 😋🙂

I wish this was a thing when I visited. I brought a water bottle but not many places to fill it. I ended up just buying a 1 liter bottle from a combini every morning.

Thanks John. this was a very interesting episode. Next time I'm in Tokyo, I'll give that a try. Also by the time your video ended, I had to pee!

Yes in enschede netherlands we have free water in the city😊❤

I rarely drink bottled water in the US so I kinda feel guilty using so many bottles here but it’s the norm sadly. I have a small insulated bottle for around the house and a bigger one for the road. Hopefully, there will be more of those dispensers next time I go.

If you base it from google maps it's been there since May 2019.

my wife says the magnesium water is good for the heart.

Even without this, I rarely had to buy water from a vending machine in Japan. I would usually encounter public taps with clean free water (often near public toilets and/or in parks) and refill the two 500ml bottles I carried in my backpack. The only water I bought every other day were the 100yen 2lt bottles at conbinis to have in my hotel room. I was at that same spot (Tokyo International Forum) in the middle of March this year. An open market was going on and it was packed. That water dispenser and the fountains were there then.

I found an app called "mymizu" that shows on a map where there are water fountains.

muji has water refill stations so i go there too if i come across one

A good friend would love that

Cool! ✌️

Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle has this. I have a well, we find the chemicals city water has is unbearable. But, the water dispenser at the Zoo was filtered and COLD! Just bringing my bottle next visit.

Can someone please tell me why all over Japan i was unable to find room temperature water, the bottles from the vending machines are too cold for drinking

People who say water = water are wrong but I have to admit most of them are almost the same ... I for one don't drink water from the brand Gerolsteiner because it is slightly salty and has a weird taste because of lots of minerals and such in it .... supposedly healthier then other water but its expensive and disgusting ^^V Also not sure if it was in a video or if I actually saw it myself but I think this one water despenser in your video was there for some years already oO? Also doubt it will be a Problem for vending mashines as people still buy sugar water and such as well as people like me who don't like non carbonated water much. I also believe that bottled water often tastes like plastic at least after it was opened for a while .... I understand why we use plastic instead of glass but most drinks taste so much better out of glass bottles.

Is that the City’s way of reducing plastic bottles?

i was about to say i saw one in yurakucho and then i kept watching im like lol thats the same one

Japan ahead of The U.S in many ways…

✨Epic 👑

Reason they have this is people fainting due lack of hydration.. and people saving money..

Good news. When į come drink only water and Japanesse tea 😊

water is the healthiest!!!

Hey bring the bendingmachine busness to Tabasco Sacatecas. Will pay for that water

some hosp in los angeles,ca have free water disp with your water bottle

I dont like the taste of the tapwater in Tokyo. We got real good water in sweden. But i like the idea with waterstations. I'll look for one tomorrow and hopefully you :p

Hi John best things to drink water 💧

i dont think thats the intention for the free water, but i like your intention of how to use it bhahahahaha

Hi john just went there..its amazing country❤❤❤🎉

No damage due to desire for “seiketsu-kan”

Sweet

Oooooh, that's cool.

Is there hydrogen water in Japan?

Japan is so nice not like spore water is so expensive.

Idk mate. I've had the Tokyo tap water at hotels every time I stayed and it's not great.

Did you test the water? What are the results of the water test?

That's awesome. Japan is so nice and generous. 😊

Save the environment less pet bottles

missed the premier.

Which exit of eki is it located?

Hey, John, did you get a burger with your water? I just found out that Indy has a Shake Shack so I am dying to find out what all the fuss is about. Did you vid this between Yoyogi and Shinjuku stations? At the end you said Yurakacho, so now I located the street view.

As long as they don't give free snacks away then I don't think the vending machines are in danger, imho.

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