Nintendo Converting Uji Ogura Plant into a Gallery

Nintendo announced today that its Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant in Ogura-cho, Uji-city, Kyoto and the land surrounding the building will be used as a new gallery to showcase the many products Nintendo has launched over its history.

Nintendo has been discussing the possibility of building a gallery for quite some time now as a way to share Nintendo’s product development history and philosophy with the public, and it is exciting to hear that the old Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant will be renovated to accommodate the gallery.

The Nintendo Uji Ogura Plant was built in 1969 and was known simply as the “Uji Plant.” The name of the facility changed to “Uji Ogura Plant” in 1988 after the construction, extension, and renovation of the current Uji Plant that resides in Makishima-cho, Uji-city, Kyoto.

The Uji Ogura Plant has been used to manufacture both playing cards and hanafuda cards, and it also operated as a customer service center for product repairs.

The discussion of what to do with the Uji Ogura Plant began back in 2016 when all of these functions were moved to the current Uji Plant, leaving the old building and a lot of property in Kyoto without too much of a purpose.

There is no word yet on when exactly this will finish construction, but the hope is that they will be finished by March 2024. If you are looking forward to visiting this historic gallery, make sure you start saving your money and book a flight to Japan some time after the Spring in the year 2024.

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