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Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum

Museum features consoles from 1983’s Famicom to 2017’s Switch, as well as honouring Nintendo’s pre-video-game era

Photograph: Richard A Brooks/AFP/Getty ImagesSituated on the site of the video game company’s old manufacturing plant in Uji, a 20-minute train ride south of central Kyoto, the museum is expected to welcome up to 2,000 people a day. Nintendo’s creative guru, Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of the Mario and Zelda series and an evident influence on the museum’s curation, used to visit this site often when it was still a working factory in the 1970s and 80s. The Japanese government’s new Cool Japan strategy, announced in June, aims to quadruple the overseas market for video games, manga, anime and other cultural exports in the next decade.

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