1st Anniversary Tour

The 1st Anniversary Tour is the twenty-eighth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on October 7, 2020, and will end on October 20, 2020. It celebrates the first anniversary since Mario Kart Tour ' s release on September 25, 2019, and sees the return of four city-themed nitro courses while also introducing New York Minute 3. Log-in bonuses are extended from 10 days to all 14 days of the tour, as is the event tokens event. Anniversary Challenges are also added alongside the standard Tour Challenges and grant the player rubies as rewards for completing each of them. Additionally, the number of free pipes for this tour has increased from 4 to 6. The menu's background featured the as the landmark for this tour.

This tour was first announced three days after the previous tour began, which makes this tour's announcement date the closest to its previous tour's starting date. However, no information besides its name was given until the day the tour would have normally been announced.

Signature kart sets
In every cup, the driver which the cup is themed about is raised a tier on each track, making them a three- or two-item driver on that course. Up until the Ice Tour, a kart and a glider were also given a bonus for each race in the cup.

Rewards
Gold cells indicate rewards exclusive to Gold Pass members.

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

Initial pipe appearance rates
In the 1st Anniversary Tour, the Gold Pipe held 50 items instead of 100 items and contained these items:

During the 1st Anniversary Tour, the amounts of the various items were changed for 1st Anniversary Pipe 1 and 2 due to having Five spotlight drivers and no spotlight karts or gliders:

In the 1st Anniversary Tour, the All-Clear Pipe held all regular High-End items, but only shoots out one item at random and could contain any of these items:

Event Shop
The limited-time event where event tokens appeared began on October 6, 2020 and lasted until October 20, 2020.

Profiles

 * Mario Kart Tour Twitter:
 * "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!"
 * "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 is 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 appear in the Diddy Kong Cup).
 * Despite celebrating the game's first anniversary, the tour which took place during the game's actual anniversary a year after the game first released was the Los Angeles Tour.