Samurai Tour

Samurai Tour
Start date	March 22, 2022 11:00 p.m. (PT)
End date	April 5, 2022 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Number of cups	12
Ranked cups	Dry Bowser Cup (week 1) Mii Cup (week 2)
Coin Rush course	SNES Ghost Valley 1
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The Samurai Tour was the sixty-sixth tour of Mario Kart Tour which began on March 23, 2022, and ended on April 5, 2022. Fitting the theme, the tour added Mario wearing the Samurai Helmet and Samurai Armor from Super Mario Odyssey as a playable character, as well as introducing Peach in a heart-themed yukata (her overall appearance being based on her appearance in Bowser's Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey), a pink-colored Shy Guy (Ninja), and Wave 2 of Mii Racing Suits. The tour also introduced many other Japanese-based items like the Warrior Wagon and the Origami Glider. Ninja Hideaway also returned as the signature course of the tour, in line with the course's inclusion in Wave 1 of the Booster Course Pass DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Although this tour did not introduce any new courses — the first to do so since the 2021 Space Tour nine tours prior - it featured the debut of 3DS Wario Shipyard and 3DS Bowser's Castle's R/T variants. This makes the tour the first of two tours in 2022 to not introduce a new course, with the second being the 2023 New Year's Tour. This tour's Coin Rush course was SNES Ghost Valley 1, which was reused from the 2020 Halloween Tour. The menu's background featured Ninja Manor as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the 2021 Ninja Tour. This would be the last appearance of SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2 until the Sunshine Tour, thirty-five tours later in 2023. This tour's trailer features falling cherry blossom petals during its opening splash screen.

This was the last tour to feature the eighth set of Expert Challenges, which started in the Singapore Tour.

The 2.5 Year Anniversary Celebration started in this tour, which includes a new set of challenges. A pipe containing tickets, coins, and rubies, as well as drivers, karts, and gliders, has also been added to the Token Shop, and can be pulled a total of thirty-one times; the cost for the initial pull is 50 event tokens, increasing with 10 tokens for every subsequent pull until the sixteenth, then with 50 tokens between the seventeenth and the twenty-first pulls. From the twenty-second pull onwards, the pipe costs 500 tokens per pull.

Starting from this tour, the Royal Parachute glider is available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

Spotlights

Samurai Pipe 1 March 22, 2022, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – April 5, 2022, 10:59 p.m. (PT)			Samurai Pipe 2 March 29, 2022, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – April 5, 2022, 10:59 p.m. (PT)
Drivers	Karts	Gliders	Drivers	Karts	Gliders
Mario (Samurai)	Warrior Wagon	Origami Glider	Peach (Yukata) and Daisy (Yukata)	Sakura Quickshaw and Festival Girl	Springtime Crane and Yukata Ribbon

Special pipe

Shinobi Pipe March 26, 2022, 11:00 p.m. (PT) – March 31, 2022, 10:59 p.m. (PT)
High-End Spotlight Driver	High-End Drivers	High-End Karts
Pink Shy Guy (Ninja)	Shy Guy (Ninja), King Bob-omb, and King Bob-omb (Gold)	Jade Hop Rod, Crimson Hop Rod, Dark Hop Rod, and Sakura Hop Rod

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Chinese	忍者水管 Rěnzhě Shuǐguǎn	Ninja Pipe		[?]
German	Shinobi-Röhre	Shinobi Pipe		[?]
Italian	Tubo shinobi	Shinobi pipe		[?]

Cups

Dry Bowser Cup Ranked cup (week 1)	Ninja Hideaway R	1,900	3DS Wario Shipyard R	1,500	3DS Bowser's Castle R/T	2,600	Glider Challenge
		2,900		2,300		3,900	SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2	Koopa Troopa
		3,300		2,700		4,600		400
		3,800		3,100		5,200		600
		9,500		7,700		13,000		800
Toad Cup	Wii Mushroom Gorge R	1,700	RMX Choco Island 2R	1,900	SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2T	1,400	Time Trial
		2,700		2,900		2,200	RMX Vanilla Lake 1	Birdo (Light Blue)
		3,100		3,400		2,600		1:45.00
		3,600		3,900		3,000		1:33.00
		8,600		9,400		7,200		1:25.00
Mii Cup Ranked cup (week 2)	Ninja Hideaway R/T	2,100	DS Waluigi Pinball R	1,300	3DS Wario Shipyard R/T	2,300	Goomba Takedown
		3,300		2,100		3,700	RMX Choco Island 2	Red Yoshi
		3,800		2,400		4,300		10
		4,400		2,800		5,000		18
		10,300		6,500		11,600		24
Toadette Cup	Wii Mushroom Gorge	2,000	RMX Vanilla Lake 1R	1,800	SNES Ghost Valley 1R	1,100	Snap a Photo
		3,200		2,900		1,800	Ninja Hideaway T	Mario (Samurai)
		3,700		3,400		2,100		1
		4,400		4,000		2,400		2
		9,800		8,900		5,400		3
Fire Bro Cup	SNES Koopa Troopa Beach 2	1,300	Ninja Hideaway R	2,000	3DS Bowser's Castle	1,800	Steer Clear of Obstacles
		2,100		3,400		3,100	SNES Ghost Valley 1	Baby Mario
		2,500		3,900		3,500		1
		2,900		4,600		4,200