Playback serverIf a title won’t play, switch servers.
Document 72 Hours
Season 16 · Episode 10
The Lure of Token Games at an Amusement Arcade
0.030mApril 11, 2025
An amusement arcade near Tokyo has row after row of token-operated games. For three days, we asked people about the appeal of games that offer no cash or prizes, no matter how many tokens are won.
Episodes
- Episode 1Multinational food store Living in Japan
- Episode 2A Niigata Drive-Through Restaurant in Winter
- Episode 3Seiya Nagasaki Daihodojo Hospital cake shop
- Episode 4Close! Moving a huge hospital.
- Episode 5A Supermarket in Snowy Iwate
- Episode 6Oku-Noto-Suzu Seaside public bath
- Episode 7Winter Sendai at midnight Nikuman Stand
- Episode 8Tokyo Botanical Garden My only winter
- Episode 9Kawasaki Taishu Shokudo Diary
- Episode 10The Lure of Token Games at an Amusement Arcade
- Episode 11Gifu-Nishiyanagigase “Shutter Town” Blues
- Episode 12Toast at “Japanese Izakaya” in Seoul, Korea
- Episode 13At a 24-Hour Ramen Restaurant in Fukuoka
- Episode 14Spring running bread moving sales car
- Episode 15Journeys Up and Down a Steep Road in Tokyo
- Episode 16Student Life in a Multicultural Dorm
- Episode 17At a Prefab Soba Restaurant in Aomori
- Episode 18Bonsai Village: Growing a Small Universe in a Pot
- Episode 19Yamagata At a small zoo
- Episode 20Lion Statue Donations at Shinjuku Station
- Episode 21Chiba 100 Years hardware store
- Episode 22Nagoya Shinkansen platform Kishimen store
- Episode 23The "Last" Newsstand Near Shibuya Station
- Episode 24Staring at Shohei Ohtani Los Angeles and Iwate
- Episode 25A 10-yen Pool in Midsummer Ehime
- Episode 26Giant cosmetics store
- Episode 27Nagasaki at the bus terminal in August
- Episode 28Karaoke Izakaya
- Episode 29Rolling Along on Kochi's Streetcars
- Episode 30Life in a Kagoshima Gold Mine
- Episode 31Dining Alone at a Shinbashi Yakiniku Restaurant
- Episode 32A Modern Shared Home in Kobe
- Episode 33Episode 33
- Episode 34Coming "Home" to a Maid Cafe in Akihabara
- Episode 35At a Tokyo Bookstore That Never Sleeps
- Episode 36Episode 36