Goodbye Kamuroan
One last photo with the okami outside Kamuroan.
To Ogura
A cab to Tofukuji Station (¥1,100), then the train south to Ogura in Uji.
The Nintendo Museum opened just a month before we went, in Nintendo’s old factory. Tickets are by lottery, and we got lucky.
The museum
You get a Mii card on the way in. Outside, a Mario pipe in the garden.
Upstairs is the history: Nintendo started in 1889 making hanafuda playing cards, then toys, then every console you’ve ever owned.
Playing
Downstairs are games built around old Nintendo toys. The Ultra Machine is a pitching machine from 1967, and you get to bat.
And the giant controllers: a huge Famicom pad, a huge N64 controller and a huge Wii remote, which two people work together.
Cameras film you while you play, and a QR code lets you download the shots after. Low-res, but they’ve got both of us in them.
The shop and lunch
The shop has things you can only get here (¥2,640), and Goombas.
Outside there’s a Pikachu manhole cover.
Lunch at the museum café: a burger and a drink (¥1,900).
To Nagoya
Then the train back and the Shinkansen to Nagoya (¥12,280), to Hotel Keihan Nagoya for three nights.
Unayasu
Dinner in Nagoya was hitsumabushi, Nagoya’s grilled eel on rice, at Unayasu. ¥3,120.
Onward to Gujō Hachiman and Shirakawa-gō!
Information About the Nintendo Museum
Nintendo's museum, opened in October 2024 in its old Uji Ogura factory: the history of every Nintendo product from hanafuda cards to the Switch, and a floor of games built around old toys. A short walk from Ogura Station on the Kintetsu line.
PS: Tickets are by lottery, sold online a few months ahead, for a timed entry slot.