Japanese architect Tadao Ando has transformed a building that was once home to video game giant Nintendo into a boutique hotel.
Due to open on 1 April, Marufukuro Hotel will be located in Kyoto in a building that was occupied by Nintendo between 1933 and 1959, when the company was called Yamauchi Nintendo.
At the time, the company was a manufacturer of Japanese playing cards called “hanafuda” and Western-style playing cards called “karuta” and “toranpu”.
The building was home to Nintendo from 1933 to 1959
Located in the Kagiyacho neighbourhood, just north of Kyoto railway station, the building has been unoccupied ever since Nintendo vacated it.
Ando has renovated and extended the old structure, converting it
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