Mario Tour (2023)

The Mario Tour was the ninety-first tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on March 8, 2023 and ended on March 21, 2023. The tour ran through Mario Day. Reflecting the theme, the tour featured the introduction and classic course debut of Mario Circuit from Mario Kart DS, coinciding with its presence in Wave 4 of the Booster Course Pass DLC for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which was announced a day before the tour's trailer was released and would release within a day of the start of the tour, as well as the R/T variant of N64 Luigi Raceway.

This was the first tour to introduce a recolor of the Pipe Buggy since the base kart's debut in the 2019 Halloween Tour eighty-eight tours prior, thus making it the longest gap of the kart's (and any item in general's) introduction and its first recolor variant. It also introduced the green Roving Racer from Super Mario Odyssey, which previously had its textures added to the game eighty-five tours prior in the London Tour. This tour featured most of the Circuit and Raceway courses available in the game at the time of the tour, making it the first tour since the 2022 Doctor Tour to feature RMX Mario Circuit 1 and SNES Mario Circuit 3, the first tour since the Ocean Tour to feature SNES Mario Circuit 2, and the first since the Singapore Tour to feature the normal, R, and T variants for SNES Mario Circuit 1. This tour also marked the first return of RMX Donut Plains 1, as well as the Precision Gliding bonus challenge. The Tanooki Mario Cup debuted in this tour, even though Tanooki Mario had been playable since the 2021 Autumn Tour and had been available in regular pipes since the Battle Tour.

The Coin Rush course for this tour was SNES Mario Circuit 1, which was reused from the 2020 Trick Tour and the Toad vs. Toadette Tour. The menu's background featured Peach's Castle as the landmark for this tour.

An event called the "Mario event" began and ended in this tour to coincide with Mario Day. This is the first event to last only one tour.

For unknown reasons, the trailers for this tour were taken down from the Nintendo Mobile YouTube channel following the tour's end.

Daily Spotlight
The Daily Spotlight contains a mixture of items themed around the tour, items that have ranked tracks as favorites, and gold items. The rates listed are specific for that type of item; drivers, karts, and gliders are selected separately. Items marked with an asterisk (*) do not appear in the Daily Spotlight during the week they are available as Spotlight Shop banner items.

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 3DS Mario Circuit in the Mii Cup using the Spike Mii Racing Suit 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.

Gold Pipe
The Gold Pipe, including 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 March 8, 2023 and ended on March 21, 2023. Event tokens could be earned by collecting them on courses.

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

 * As of March 29, 2023, the trailers for this tour were privated on the Nintendo Mobile YouTube channel, and several tweets related to the tour were deleted from the English and Japanese Mario Kart Tour Twitter accounts.

Tour Mario (2023)