New Year's 2022 Tour

The New Year's 2022 Tour was the sixtieth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on December 29, 2021, and ended on January 11, 2022. True to its name, the tour commemorated the new year of 2022. This tour featured the debut of Bowser's Castle from Mario Kart 7 as a new classic course, as well as the return and debut of various feline-themed items, including the introduction of Meowser and Cat Rosalina as new drivers. The inclusion of the feline-themed items as part of a New Year's tour may be an allusion to 2022 being the in the. This tour was also the third one after the previous New Year's-themed tours to feature kadomatsu scattered across courses.

This tour concluded the Holiday Celebration event that began in the 2021 Holiday Tour. In addition to keeping the Holiday Challenges, the tour introduced new unique challenges called the New Year's Challenges, featured Pauline as a completion reward on the Tour Multiplayer Challenges, and had better rewards in the Token Shop, such as Dixie Kong, the Banana Master and the Tropical Glider. During this tour, every day featured either the Coins Aplenty event or the Tokens Aplenty event, with Coins Aplenty gradually upgrading over time and allowing players to receive over 20,000 coins by participating every day, and Tokens Aplenty held on December 31, 2021 (Friday) and January 6, 2022 (Thursday) instead of the Monday schedule.

This tour's Coin Rush course was RMX Rainbow Road 1, which was reused from the Super Mario Kart Tour and the 2021 Paris Tour. The menu's background featured Bowser's Castle as the landmark for this tour. This tour's trailer featured falling red/white confetti and clouds in a Japanese-style pattern during its opening splash screen.

This was the last tour to feature the seventh set of Expert Challenges, which started in the 2021 Halloween Tour.

Like the April-May 2021 Sydney Tour, the trailer and the social media announcement were released later than the usual time.

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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 RMX Ghost Valley 1R in the Funky Kong Cup using Dixie Kong 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.

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 appeared began on December 29, 2021 and ended on January 11, 2022. Event tokens can be earned by causing opponents to crash or by hitting kadomatsu with items.

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.