Nintendo Museum

A photo of Nintendo Museum

The Nintendo Museum is a museum opening on October 2, 2024 at 56 Kaguraden, Ogura-cho, Uji-shi, Kyoto 611-0042. The museum was first revealed in a Nintendo Direct where Shigeru Miyamoto revealed many areas of the museum. The museum will consist of many Nintendo products consisting from Hanafuda cards to the Nintendo Switch. The museum is built on the site of the original factory where Nintendo used to make Hanafuda and other playing cards. There are many areas in the museum related to the Super Mario franchise.

List of Super Mario exhibits an areas

Outside

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The outside of Nintendo Museum

The outside of Nintendo Museum includes many elements from the Super Mario franchise. Blocks, a ? Block, an Empty Block, a Super Mushroom and a Flag Pole with Mario grabbing it.

Entrace

When a visitor enters the museum, they will be issued with an entry passes. A sprite of Mario from Super Mario Bros. is pictured on this entry pass. This entry pass has digital coins that can be used on the museum's activities.

First Floor

The first floor has an area with a floor with a screen that can be scanned with a smart device to play a traditional Japanese card game, Hyakunin Isshu. In this room, there are pillars based on Blocks and ? Blocks.

Second Floor

On the second floor, there is an area that shows many games and consoles that Nintendo published in all of the different boxes for each region. Screens are above this exhibit to show gameplay of all these games. Many Super Mario appear here. There is an area that shows the differences in graphics between various Nintendo games, which use Super Mario games for comparison.

List of Super Mario activities

In the museum, there are eight activities, but only three are shown in the Nintendo Direct. These art the activities the entry pass is used for.

Ultra Machine

One activity room uses Ultra Machine, an indoor pitching toy made by Nintendo in 1968 that uses balls similar to one's used in table tennis. Hitting a bottle in one the room will make it react by display Mario and Luigi's name.

Zapper and Scope SP

This activity consists of using either a NES Zapper or a Super Scope that can shoot up at a big screen. On this screen, there consist many Super Mario enemies that the player gets points for after being shot. Mario and Peach also appear, but they shouldn't be shot.

Nintendo games

There is a section where visitors can play Famicom, Super Famicom, Nintendo 64 and Wii games, however, there controllers to play them are big, making it so two people can play. In the Direct, Super Mario Bros. is played. Donkey Kong and Dr. Mario are seen on the Famicom section's screen, and one of the workers can be seen playing Super Mario Kart in the background.