The former Nintendo headquarters in Japan will become a hotel

The building, called Yamauchi Nintendo, becomes part of the Kabuyama Project, which will transform the property into a hotel complex.

The former Nintendo headquarters, the Yamauchi Nintendo building based in Kyoto, will become a hotel with gym, restaurant, spa and other facilities within the so-called Kabuyama Project.

As Osumituki advances, the building becomes part of a hotel project that will consist of 20 rooms after decades without a specific public use. In fact, the building had remained intact since the 1930s, when it happened to have the appearance it has now, one of the main tourist spots in the Japanese city by Nintendo enthusiasts.

But the place where Nintendo's Hanafuda cards were manufactured, founded as Yamauchi Nintendo & Co. Ltd. in September 1889, will reopen its doors in the form of a hotel in the summer of 2021, date estimated by the company that has taken the rights of the building. The place is conducive, as they estimate, for the construction of a hotel given the proximity of its location to the Toba-kaidō train station.

Yamauchi Nintendo Building

Nintendo left over the years that establishment due to space limitations and the growth of the company when Yamauchi himself was still alive. They have never left the city of Kyoto, but now they have a total of five large headquarters where they operate in both Kyoto and Tokyo.

More details about the future hotel are unknown, which will surely change outside and inside to enable the complex to accommodate the needs of future visitors.

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