This is overselling the variety a lot. Hot and cold drinks including a couple of types of soup (sold only in winter) are everywhere. Cigarette vending machines

This is overselling the variety a lot. Hot and cold drinks including a couple of types of soup (sold only in winter) are everywhere. Cigarette vending machines are pretty common (usually located in front a tobacco shop). Ice cream and small snack vending machines often exist on a train platform but they are not common on the street. Occasionally, a shop sells its sausage or something in a vending machine out in front. Sometimes, usually in a small town, you will see one that dispenses hot food like fries or takoyaki. School or work cafeterias often have a cup noodle vending machine for after-hours food but it's usually located inside. My guess for order of magnitude: if you train/walk around Tokyo for a week on vacation, you might see 5,000 drink vending machines, 100 cigarette vending machines, 10 ice cream vending machines, 5 snack vending machines and 3 total of any other type of food and maybe one selling something weird.