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Nintendo Museum

Nintendo's own museum, on the site of an old Nintendo factory in Uji. Tickets are a lottery, three months ahead.

The museum opened in October 2024 on the site of a former Nintendo factory. It covers the company from its hanafuda playing-card years through to the present, with the products laid out in order — the toys of the 1960s and 70s, Game & Watch, the Famicom, and everything after. There are hands-on exhibits built around oversized controllers, and a workshop where you assemble a hanafuda deck.

Pourquoi ça vaut le détour

Nintendo has never had a museum anywhere else in the world, and there is no second one. Everything else on this site that carries the Nintendo name is a shop.

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Museum-only goods, and the hanafuda you assemble yourself in the workshop.

Quand y aller

Every session is capacity-limited by the lottery, so it is never crowded inside. The difficulty is entirely in getting a ticket.

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Tickets are sold by lottery through a free Nintendo Account, and applications open three months before the visit date — you pick up to three preferred dates and results come by email on the 1st of the following month. Payment is taken only if you win. This means you must decide your Japan dates roughly four months ahead, which is the single hardest part of visiting. There is no same-day ticket. Getting there is also restricted: cars, taxis, motorbikes and bicycles are not allowed, so you must come by train. Workshop sessions are booked separately on site and cost extra.

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Nintendo's only museum, anywhere. Lottery tickets, three months ahead.

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