1st Anniversary Tour

The 1st Anniversary Tour was the twenty-eighth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on October 7, 2020, and ended on October 20, 2020. It celebrated the first anniversary since Mario Kart Tour ' s release on September 25, 2019, and saw the return of four previous city courses (Tokyo Blur, Paris Promenade, London Loop, and Vancouver Velocity) while also introducing New York Minute 3. Log-in bonuses were extended from 10 days to all 14 days of the tour, as was the event tokens event. Anniversary Challenges were also added alongside the standard Tour Challenges and granted the player rubies as rewards for completing each of them. Additionally, the number of free pipes for this tour was increased from 4 to 6. The menu's background featured the as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the 2019 Holiday Tour.

Despite celebrating the game's first anniversary, the actual one-year anniversary fell in the previous tour, the 2020 Los Angeles Tour. Instead, the tour was announced on the day in question, three days after the 2020 Los Angeles Tour began, making this tour's announcement date one of the closest ones to its previous tour's starting date, though no information besides its name was given until the day the tour would have normally been announced. This was the first tour to feature a special pipe that reused a theme and name from a previous tour (the Gold Pipe from the Cooking Tour). It was also the first tour to feature 35 unique courses, including variants (the only recurring track was New York Minute 3R/T); due to this, it had fewer base courses compared to previous tours, with 10. While this trailer showed real-life city tracks, 3DS Toad Circuit was the only non-real-life city and retro track seen in this video.

Special pipe

 * Names in other languages

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

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards exclusive to Gold Pass members.

Anniversary Bonus
The 14-day Anniversary Bonus served as the log-in bonus for this tour and consisted of bigger rewards than those of other tours.

Initial pipe appearance rates
During the 1st Anniversary Tour, the amounts of the various items were changed for 1st Anniversary Pipes 1 and 2 because of Five spotlight drivers and no spotlight karts or gliders in each of these pipes.

All-Clear Pipe
The All-Clear Pipe randomly shot out one of the following regular High-End items.

Token Shop
The limited-time event where event tokens appeared began on October 6, 2020 and lasted until October 20, 2020. Event tokens could be earned from collecting in courses.

Profiles

 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
 * "Can you believe it's been one year since blue was released? Thank you for playing! To commemorate the anniversary, the next tour will be called the 1st Anniversary Tour. We'll show a preview of it at a later time."
 * "Starting Oct. 6, 11 PM PT, five city courses make their comeback in the 1st Anniversary Tour! Log-In Bonuses along with the limited-time event have been extended to 14 days with a special lineup. Also, all rewards give you rubies in the blue Anniversary Challenges!"
 * "It's time for the 1st Anniversary Tour! Let's celebrate one full year since blue was released! Over the next two weeks, you'll race across 5 city courses including a new variant of New York Minute."
 * "For the first half of the 1st Anniversary Tour, drivers that have been lighting up city courses around the world are back, including Pauline and Mario (Hakama)!"
 * "Log-In Bonuses have been upgraded for the 1st Anniversary Tour! In the second half of the tour, you can also receive a High-End level-boost ticket from the 11th day!"

Trivia

 * This was the first tour to have two variants of the same course in a cup, namely SNES Choco Island 1 (both the Reverse and Trick variant of the course appeared in the Diddy Kong Cup).
 * It was also the first tour to feature a cup that only contained real-life city tracks; in this case the Mario Cup and its bonus challenge.