KitKat lets rail passengers in Japan use chocolate bars as tickets


Wouldn’t train travel be more fun if you could pay in chocolate rather than buying a ticket?

If that sounds like your thing then head to Japan, where travellers using the Sanriku Railway network can now use KitKats as train passes.

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Lifestyle , Japan railways , KitKat , 2011 tsunami

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