Nintendo is opening a Super Famicom restaurant at its Kyoto museum

Nintendo is adding a new dining facility called the Super Family Restaurant to the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto this fall. The company announced the expansion early Friday morning. The new space will serve a variety of food and desserts. An exact opening date has not been set yet, but the facility will join the museum's existing attractions as a permanent fixture.

This new restaurant seems positioned as a more traditional sit-down experience. I wonder how the food will be compared to Nintendo World theme parks. Universal Studios set a pretty specific bar with Chef Toad's cafe and its question-block tiramisu, so it will be interesting to see what Nintendo's in-house museum team cooks up for a dedicated historical site.

A very literal name

The name is a direct nod to the Super Famicom, the 16-bit console known outside of Japan as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In Japan, "family restaurants" (often shortened to "famiresu") are a ubiquitous style of casual, affordable dining establishment. Smashing the 1990 console name and the restaurant category together is exactly the kind of dry wordplay Nintendo loves.

Early promotional images show off some of the decor. The dining area includes a life-sized statue of Link from The Legend of Zelda, a Master Sword display case, and a full Varia Suit from Metroid. It looks less like a standard cafe and more like a high-end collector's living room. The aesthetic leans heavily into the 16-bit era's legacy, which makes sense given the restaurant's namesake.

Expanding the Uji City site

The Nintendo Museum sits on the grounds of the former Uji Ogura Plant, a facility Nintendo originally used to manufacture Hanafuda playing cards and repair broken consoles. The site is now a massive interactive archive of the company's entire history, dating back to its founding in 1889.

Visitors can play classic games on giant, oversized controllers that require two people to operate, or participate in interactive workshops to make their own traditional playing cards. Because of the sheer volume of exhibits, the museum is a full-day excursion for most attendees. Adding a second dining option makes logistical sense. Relying entirely on a single dining option creates inevitable bottlenecks when thousands of people are trying to eat lunch between rounds of giant Super Mario Bros.

Fall 2026 launch window

The addition of the Super Family Restaurant will likely give future ticket holders another reason to spend their entire day on the campus.

Nintendo says it is currently preparing the menu and will share more details closer to the autumn launch window.