Tourism Nintendo Museum Opens in Kyoto

[thomas]

Today, Nintendo unveiled its new museum to the media, showcasing iconic video games that have captivated fans for decades. Ahead of its official opening next week, the museum offered visitors a sneak peek, including interactive experiences like playing games with giant controllers. The Nintendo Museum will open on 2 October in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture. The museum features nostalgic video game consoles like the Family Computer (known as the Nintendo Entertainment System outside of Japan) and Nintendo DS, along with classic game software packages.

Photos courtesy of Nintendo Museum​

The first floor of the building is where visitors can play games using digital coins embedded in entrance tickets. They can manoeuvre a huge Nintendo 64 controller or take part in a shooting game using electronic guns. Videos also show game screens of the Mario series and other popular titles to learn their history at the museum housed in an old Nintendo plant built in 1969. The Kyoto-based company was established in 1889 as a maker of traditional Japanese "hanafuda" playing cards; such cards are also on display, along with Western-style playing cards and board games sold before video games. "I want people to think that Nintendo is a company that is good at conveying fun," Shigeru Miyamoto, executive fellow at Nintendo and the creator of Super Mario, told a press conference.

Tickets, available through a random drawing, are priced at 3,300 JPY (USD 23) for adults, 2,200 JPY for children aged 12 to 17, and 1,100 JPY for children aged 6 to 11.

Nintendo museum in Kyoto Prefecture unveiled with iconic games ahead of opening - The Mainichi

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Nintendo Co. on Wednesday unveiled its museum ahead of next week's opening, showcasing iconic video games that have captivated fans o

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Address: 56 Kaguraden, Ogura-cho, Uji-shi, Kyoto 611-0042
Access: 5-minute walk from the East exit of Ogura Station (Kintetsu Railway Kyoto Line)
8-minute walk from the North exit of JR Ogura Station (JR Nara Line)
Hours: 10:00-18:00 (last admission 16:30); closed Tuesdays and through the
New Year's holiday season (30 Dec. - 3 Jan.)

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The Nintendo Museum is a video game museum located in Uji, Kyoto. It is owned by Nintendo and will display various products from its history. The museum opened on 2 October 2024. The Nintendo Museum, first announced in 2021, is located on the site of...

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[Achilles 1-1]

I fell like Nintendo is already overrated. This is the icing on the cupcake right here.

 

[Mikawa Ossan]

We used to own a Sega Genesis. I always did like the Final Fantasy games, though. Most of my friends had various Nintendo systems, and I have to admit that they were fun to play.

That picture of the people walking around is interesting. The pictures they are walking on are karuta, or apparently uta-garuta (just learned this way to say it today), which each have a poem from Hyakunin-Isshuu. I wonder how that's related to Nintendo?