Level up your travel plans: Nintendo museum set to open in Japan this October


By AGENCY

Japan's Nintendo said Tuesday it will open its much-awaited first museum on Oct 2 featuring vintage video games and an interactive shoot-em-up with Super Mario characters.

The museum in Kyoto's Uji city is located inside a renovated old factory built in 1969, where the gaming giant began life making Western-style and Japanese playing cards and later repaired consoles.

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