The Nintendo Museum Now Has An Official Book

Uuuuh… how to order one of these? Not gonna happen right?

I was lucky enough to visit the museum in April, but it came with the unfortunate side effect that now anything new that gets added I feel like I 'missed'

Oh well, I'll just have to try and go back

Be ready to pay $80 for a copy overseas.

If anyone goes to Kyoto and then back in Canada in the next year, please grab me one. TIA.

the person who uploads this onto the internet archive will be a real hero

I am currently at the Nintendo Museum for the first anniversary.

Currently guests may only purchase one copy of the Nintendo Museum Official Book. This means that you cannot purchase both the English and Japanese versions at the same time. Your play ticket is scanned to confirm if you have already made a purchase that day.

While I will not share scans of the book, there are forty pages of content including a brief overview of the museum exhibits, merchandise, and brand new interviews with Miyamoto, Tezuka, Nakago, and Kondo. It also features scans from the art gallery.

I will be in Kyoto this coming May for my honeymoon and the Nintendo museum is high on the list of things we are hoping to get to see. My understanding is that tickets are sold on a lottery system, I'm hoping we can get in!

Wish they hire a good designer to do it like Irma Boom

@Sephazon

Just to confirm: there’s no way to access any part of the museum or buying this book without a lottery ticket right? Going to Japan end of October but no ticket luck

good it is developing... thought the start wasa bit small...

planning is to go to kyotooland in 2027, so hope access is a bit easier..

That's cool! Finally, those of us from far away can get a taste of what the Nintendo Museum is like without having to shell out thousands and fly all the way aro..........aaand it's only available in the museum.

Great.

Ok... so I have the Nintendo account, that's step one.

Now I need to apply for the ticket drawing for the museum, hope I get the ticket, buy the ticket, save enough for flights and accommodation to and from Japan, buy flights and accommodation to and from Japan, get to the museum, hope the book is not sold out, buy the book, skim read the book, get home, place book on shelf.

Simple!

@molkom That is correct.

Curiously, I was only in Japan 10 days ago. When I planned the trip in July, my hunch was to skip Kyoto and the Osaka area in general (for Donkey Kong World). Something was telling me to wait longer. So, it was 6 full days in Tokyo via 3 days in Hong Kong. Despite that now my seventh visit to Japan, including Tokyo each time, I found something new to do. I rode Tokyo's only remaining tram line to a small museum and visited Hie-jinja Shrine, which features a tunnel of red torii gates. Very few tourists for those, which I much appreciated.

Games and stuff? I went to Akihabara on day 1 (landed early that morning from HK) and immediately went to my familiar Mos Burger for lunch. Went down the back streets and popped into Surugaya for all of 1 minute. Super Potato? I looked in the street I thought it was. Didn't see it. Whatever. I've visited it plenty of times already. Mandarake? I've bought everything I ever wanted. Pass. Off to Bic Camera for new stuff. My only interest was a Switch 2 Pro Controller because it was $20 AUD cheaper. Sold out! Over the next 6 days, I discovered it was sold out everywhere. I could buy a Switch 2 if I wanted.

My final day I did the obvious pilgrimage to the Nintendo Store. Shibuya was packed! This was a Wednesday night. Believe the stories about excess tourism in Japan. It's bonkers. My last visit was in 2019 and I really noticed a difference. Bought an Alarmo, DK and Pauline amiibo, a few smaller things, and a t-shirt. Had I seen it was 5000 yen, I would left it on the shelf. It's 100% cotton, so hopefully it lasts and doesn't shrink. Whatever. It's only money!

With the Nintendo Museum and this book, and DK World, my next trip will definitely be into Osaka. Probably within two years.

Bet ya they're still doing everything they can to scrub love hotels and naked playing cards from their history

@Darthmoogle Congratalutions for your forthcoming wedding, and more importantly for your trip to Japan, enjoy!

We visitied Japan last year and there were a few things we had to book before we went, like the Kirby Cafe and the Pokemon Cafe. I wouldn't suggest it was easy but I wouldn't say it was too hard either. Good luck

@dew12333 Thank you! We are spending 3 days in Tokyo, a day in Hakone, and 3 days in Kyoto before going back towards Tokyo for a day at Disneyland Tokyo before flying home. Any specific things you recommend we check out, doesn’t necessarily have to be Nintendo related

"Once upon a time, there used to be the Good Ol' Nintendo..."

I'd love for Nintendo to give us a way to view some/all of this digitally, but I won't get my hopes up.

Anyone know where we can buy the English version of this? If you do, please send me the link.

@HalBailman Wow, what prompted all of that? At any rate, Super Potato isn't at street level, so you have to look up to find the sign that guides you to the stairwell.

@Thomystic I just felt like regaling some aspects of my recent trip for the benefit of fine people like yourself after fortuitously deciding not to encompass Osaka and Kyoto. As I said, I've visited Super Potato plenty of times already, so going again held little interest, especially after spending all of one minute in Surugaya. If it happened to be in the street that perhaps I thought, I might have went up for nostalgia. Over the years (since 2008), I bought all the retro stuff I wanted, and even ignored Mandarake (my favourite store) despite walking past it. If anything, I'm at the stage of my life that I'll probably begin selling stuff!

@Darthmoogle Hi, Sorry not been on in a few days. So much to mention! My first suggestion would be good preparation, and deciding on the areas you would like to go and then seeing what else that maybe intersts there. For instance we like to get up high to look over the city, this can be done from several places in Tokyo so maybe you can dual that with other things in the same area. Saves time on travelling. For instance one of the high buildings we liked was the goverment buiding, this is free to go to the top and was located quite near the Meiji shrine, and also near Shinjuku which is an area I would recomend too. Hopefully you can get the most from the time that you have this way. We also stayed near the the Skytree Tower, this is an amazing sight from the ground, we didn't get to go up that one (windy day), but can't imagine it is dissapointing. Also the skytree shopping centre was great, lots of exclusive shops, Kitby Cafe / Pokemon Centre / Marvel Shop / Snoopy shop / etc. There is also another high building you can go up at the Shibuya Crossing, you get an elevated view of the crossing from this one.
As far as areas of Tokyo we really enjoyed, these would be Shibuya and Shinjuku, lots to do in both of these areas. We also liked Ueno Park area,and the Zoo, it really felt like we were part of Japanese life here. Seeing people enjoying the park in different ways felt more Japanese than some of the hussle and bussle of city life. We also stayed in the Ginza district, if you would like to visit the top fashion stores lots of them are here, also the shopping centre underneath the Train Staion here is very good. This where we found a few 'pop up shops' these were really fun, worth looking out to see if any are going to around for when you visit. One place we did miss out on was the Robot Cafe in Shibuya, you need to book before you go and we didn't realise. Don't worry about phoning them their English was very good.

We didn't go to Kyoto on this visit, only on a previous visit 15 years ago, so can't add as much here. Althougth beleive it or not the train station here is one of my favourite buildings in the world. I imagine you will be visiting the Geisha district, i beleive this has got more comercialised lately but I am sure it's well worth a visit. And Hakone is beautiful too, get that camera ready!!!

I would also mention that we travelled with a 12 year old and was not part of a tour. We found it (pretty) easy to get do everything we wanted, tubes in Tokyo, Bullet Train rides to Osaka, Day trip to Hakone / left baggage in Tokyo station storage for three days to visit Osaka. I am not saying you will find an English speaking person whereever you go, but we always managed to get by.

And my 'Best bit' from my time in Japan, the people. The world could learn alot from them!