Nintendo has announced its Uji Ogura Plant and the land surrounding the building is being transformed into a new gallery to showcase the company's development history and philosophy.
The gallery will be tentatively known as the "Nintendo Gallery" and renovations are expected to be completed within Nintendo's 2023 fiscal year - year ending March 2024.
Here's the full PR from Nintendo's website, including the history of Uji Oguru Plant - which was built in 1969 to manufacture playing cards and Hanafuda cards and went on to function as a customer service center for product repairs.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Minami-ku, Kyoto; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa) is pleased to announce that its Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant (Ogura-cho, Uji-city, Kyoto) and the land surrounding the building will be used as a new gallery to showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history.
Nintendo has been discussing the possibility of building a gallery, as a way to share Nintendo’s product development history and philosophy with the public. To this end, the Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant will be renovated to accommodate the gallery, a decision reached after taking consideration of The City of Uji’s plan of re-developing the nearby Ogura Station area.
The Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant was built in 1969, and was known as the “Uji Plant.” The name of the facility changed to “Uji Ogura Plant” in 1988, after the construction, extension and renovation of the current Uji Plant (Makishima-cho, Uji-city, Kyoto). The Uji Ogura Plant has been used to manufacture both playing cards and Hanafuda cards, and it also operated as a customer service center for product repairs. Discussion of how to use the Uji Ogura Plant began after these functions were transferred to the current Uji Plant in November 2016.
The facility, tentatively named “Nintendo Gallery”, where Nintendo’s historical products will be showcased, and exhibits and experiences will be available, is expected to be completed within our 2023 Fiscal Year, which ends in March 2024.
Would you be interested in visiting this Nintendo Gallery in Japan one day? Leave a comment down below.
[source nintendo.co.jp]
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I was just about to tag someone to get this in, but yet another reason for me to want to visit Japan.
This is just awesome. That's all i have on this.
I wonder if they'll have some sort of virtual tour software, like they did on 3DS with the Louvre.
Come on Nintendo stop caring and preserving your history and finally make a new Castlevania game along with DK Jr. Math 2!
If video games aren't art, then why is Nintendo opening up a museum?
Switch Pro looking a bit bigger than anyone expected...
Well, I know the first place I'll be going if I ever visit Japan...
The second place will be Super Nintendo Land.
It says at the bottom of the website:
“ Nintendo will continue to aim to "create original entertainment" and provide customers all over the world with experiences to "make people smile" through mobile devices, movies, theme parks, etc., centered on game machines. I will continue to challenge to do.”
Nice to see Nintendo confirming a movie like this.
@MiphaTheChampion They already confirmed an animated Mario movie a while back set for ~2022 to be created by Illumination (The Minions people).
50 rupees that Blathers will be the tour guide and a coffee shop called The Roost will be there.
Nintendo has a very rich history and it would be awesome to see exhibits for some obscure stuff that got canceled like the WorkBoy or Earthbound 64.
I look forward to inevitable YouTube tours with mercifully little narration
All those money they could had spent to make a more powerful Super Switch or a triple a next gen 4K HD raytracing ultra fast open world rogue-like cyberpunk F-Zero RPG had all been spent on a theme park and a museum. Good job Nintendo.
I always fantasized Nintendo would do something like this. They have so many quirky and interesting objects made throughout their history that it’d be so interesting to see it displayed in a thoughtful chronological way.
Sign me up!!
Ah, So this is what the Switch Pro Rumors end up being
but on a serious note. this is pretty cool and i can't wait to hear more about it.
Good news to the "Game Preservation" people. You don't need game ROMs any more since they will most likely be preserved here. Does that make you happy?
I can't wait to see Spanky's Quest in person. Then I'll ask the curator where is the Earthbound exhibit? And he'll say what is this Earthbound you speak of? 😄
@HotGoomba Like this one?
lol, the site censored the URL...
Hmm, this could be fun.
If only I could visit Japan..if only...
@Trikeboy You stole my comment!!!!
Miyamoto wants a Ghibli Museum of his own. :V
That artist depiction looks so... Japan 😅
Bland and boxy.
Just another thing to add on my itinerary of things to do if I ever visit Japan someday!
Now if I could fly there and speak Japanese I could go see it.
Now this is a good idea. I want more stuff like this.
Really like to see it 😁
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