Anniversary Tour (2022)

The Anniversary Tour was the seventy-ninth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on September 21, 2022 and ended on October 4, 2022. This tour celebrated three years since the release of Mario Kart Tour on September 25, 2019; however, unlike the 1st and 2nd Anniversary Tours, this tour's name did not contain a number representing the anniversary it celebrated (in this case, it's the 3rd).

This tour marked the end of the two-tour event celebrating the third anniversary of Mario Kart Tour that started in the previous tour. This tour featured an upgraded Token Shop that included items like Metal Mario, Pink Gold Peach, the Wild Wing, and three golden pipes. This tour also introduced the second set of two 3rd Anniversary Challenges cards in addition to continuing the 3 Year Anniv. Log-In Bonus and the 3rd Anniversary Challenges 1 card from the previous tour.

Like the 2nd Anniversary Tour and Metropolitan Tour, only city courses appeared in the tour. This tour also introduced new routes for both Sydney Sprint and Berlin Byways, named Sydney Sprint 3 and Berlin Byways 3 respectively, the former of which was previously seen in the course's appearance in the Booster Course Pass for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. It also introduced the R/T variants of both Amsterdam Drift 2 and Singapore Speedway 2, which debuted in the Metropolitan Tour and Ocean Tour, respectively. With the introduction of these courses, this was the first tour since the Samurai Tour thirteen tours prior to introduce new R/T variants, the first tour in the game to introduce the R/T variants of multiple city courses, and the first tour since the Ice Tour seventy tours prior to introduce both multiple new courses and multiple R/T variants simultaneously. It also features the return of Tokyo Blur, Berlin Byways 2, Los Angeles Laps 3, and Sydney Sprint 2.

Despite the new courses not being related to London or Britain, and the tour not including returning London Loop tracks, the new vehicles are a variant of the Double-Decker and a kart based on a, in addition to a new variant of Mario, where he is in his King's Crown and King's Outfit from Super Mario Odyssey.

This was the last tour to feature the regular week pipes which would be fired with rubies and contain spotlight items, as they were removed after this tour in favor of a Spotlight Shop that was implemented in the following tour. In addition to the removal of ruby pipes, this was the last tour where the spotlight items from the first and second week were raised to a higher shelf on the second and third course of every cup, respectively, restricting shelf boosts after this tour to driver cups and the first course in a cup for Mii Racing Suits and commemorative items. This was also the last tour to have only twelve cups as the next tour would have fifteen.

This tour's Coin Rush course was Tokyo Blur, and the menu's background featured the as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the April–May 2021 and September 2021 Sydney Tours.

Despite the tenth set of Expert Challenges ending in the last tour, the eleventh set was not made available at the start of this tour and was instead made available at the start of the Battle Tour.

Starting from this tour, the Platinum Taxi and Clanky Kart are available in regular tour pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe.

Special pipes

 * Names in other languages
 * Mario Pipe


 * Peach & Daisy Pipe

Signature kart sets
Drivers with a corresponding cup are bumped one rank up in every course of their cup.

Today's Challenge
Players' most recently used kart and glider are chosen, and favorite and favored ones have extra priority. Opponents are arranged randomly. On day 1 of this tour, players finish a race in Los Angeles Laps 3T in the Mii Cup using Birdo (Black) for a free pipe launch. Starting from day 2, players have to finish a race in the earliest incomplete course that is not in any of the ranked cups using the driver shown on the course's thumbnail every day to obtain the corresponding reward in the table below. Once all of the courses are completed, the courses are selected at random.

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards that are exclusive to Gold Pass members.

3 Year Anniv. Log-In Bonus
A 14-day "3 Year Anniv. Log-In Bonus" continued from the previous tour and served as the log-in bonus for the 3rd anniversary event from September 7, 2022 to October 4, 2022.

All-Clear Pipe
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shoots out one of the following regular High-End items. The appearance rate can be viewed via the "Pipe content" link on the Gold Pass purchase screen.

Token Shop
The limited-time event where event tokens appear began on September 21, 2022 and ended on October 4, 2022. Event tokens could be earned by causing opponents to crash.

Tier Shop
The shop features a variety of set and randomized items available for purchase. The item slots in the shop are unlocked based on the highest tier of players.

Trivia

 * This was the first tour since the Valentine's Tour sixty-nine tours prior to feature an addition to the list of favorite courses for a Normal driver, as well as the first since the Marine Tour fifty-eight tours prior to feature an addition to the list of favorite courses for any Normal item, with Koopa Troopa getting Sydney Sprint 3R as a favorite course.
 * This was the first tour to include the normal and R variants, but not the T variant, of a track (namely Tokyo Blur). To accommodate this, Los Angeles Laps 3T repeats.
 * It was also the first normal tour to exclude one of the three aforementioned variants of any track.
 * Including R, T, and R/T variants, this tour featured eight courses, the least out of any tour.