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Quoted from OilGuy:Does anyone know if there is a minimum allowable age in Japan to go into the Pachinko halls or arcade/casinos like the one on the top video? We are considering a trip next year, have a few Pachinko machines and would love to play some in the wild.
I believe the answer is 18 for pachinko parlours, but I'll check on my way home (I walk past one on my commute). For arcades, including ones with shit-tons of claw machines (it's a thing here) and stuff like this I believe that there's no age limit. There are No Casinos in Japan.
Quoted from Aladdin:So does anyone have a link on where we can buy a Japanese Slot Machine like the one in the video?
You really want to get used stuff out of Japan--it tends to be super cheap for various reasons. I know there's a grey-market distributor for the stuff in Australia, but I'm not sure how you'd get one to the US.
Quoted from mg81:The idea is to get around gambling laws, but it is so obvious that it seems dumb they bother to abolish the gambling laws.
I believe the answer is politically complicated. Like many laws, there are those that would prefer they don't change, and often those people have money and or power and may be able to stir up others to complain about the immorality of things changing.
