--- description: Find out why Nintendo Museum is on TIME’s list of the World’s Greatest Places 2025. title: Nintendo Museum: World's Greatest Places 2025 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a899a289fe1814d/6998c4bee1ba009b0c98d579/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-NintendoMuseum.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Mar 13, 2025 # Nintendo Museum ## Video: The World's Greatest Places of 2025 [Watch (HLS stream): The World's Greatest Places of 2025](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kxT663me.m3u8) (3:29)  _Published 2025-03-13_ Uji, Japan by [Jessica Shaw](/author/jessica-shaw/) ## Jessica Shaw Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  The Yomiuri Shimbun/AP You don’t need to know a Shino from a Mario from a Zelda to appreciate the [Nintendo Museum](https://museum.nintendo.com/en/index.html "undefined"), but anyone who spent their childhood (or—no judgment—last weekend) glued to their Nintendo Switch or vintage Game Boy may find themselves transported. The two-story museum opened in October in Uji, about 30 minutes south of Kyoto, on the site of the company’s former Uji Ogura plant, where the Hanafuda trading cards that put the company on Japan’s map were once printed. It’s a fitting location, considering how much of the museum is devoted to displaying artifacts from the gaming giant’s 135-year history. (Who knew they once made a stroller?) On the interactive floor, visitors can team up to operate an oversized Wii Remote or play a version of 1968’s Ultra Machine SP, which involves using a padded bat to hit balls around a room filled with era-appropriate furniture. Post-gaming snacks are available at Hatena Burger, which boasts so many bun and topping options that it claims 270,000 different burger combos are possible. To keep the crowds down, tickets are sold by a randomly selected drawing of Nintendo account holders about three months in advance. Nintendo Museum: World’s Greatest Places 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263091/nintendo-museum/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263091/nintendo-museum/"},"headline":"Nintendo Museum","datePublished":"2025-03-13T12:34:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:44:45.185Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263091/nintendo-museum/","keywords":["World's Greatest Places","list","franchise","Magazine","sponsorshipblock","WGP2025"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a899a289fe1814d/6998c4bee1ba009b0c98d579/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-NintendoMuseum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Shaw","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jessica-shaw/"}],"creator":"Jessica Shaw","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a899a289fe1814d/6998c4bee1ba009b0c98d579/Worlds-Greatest-Places-2025-NintendoMuseum.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/worlds-greatest-places/","name":"World's Greatest Places"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263091/nintendo-museum/","name":"Nintendo Museum"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The World's Greatest Places of 2025","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/kxT663me/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2025-03-13T10:00:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kxT663me.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263091/nintendo-museum/","duration":"PT3M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/worlds-greatest-places-2025/7263091/nintendo-museum/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```