Yoshi Tour (2023)

The Yoshi Tour is the ninety-third tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on April 5, 2023 and ended on April 18, 2023. The tour added Yoshi's Island, which first appeared in Wave 4 of the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass, and Yoshi Desert, returning from Mario Kart: Super Circuit for the first time as a classic course; the R/T variant of N64 Yoshi Valley was also introduced. In addition to the Yoshi's Island course being themed around Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, many other Yoshi-franchise items were also introduced in this tour, including Poochy's first playable appearance in the Mario Kart series and a Yoshi Cookie-themed glider. During this tour, some courses featured spring eggs, which gave bonus points and event tokens when interacted with.

The introduction of Poochy makes this the first tour since the Piranha Plant Tour to introduce a brand new driver, as well as the first tour since the 2022 Los Angeles Tour over a year prior to introduce a new character to the Mario Kart series. This is the first tour since the Super Mario Kart Tour to include different ending music after the trailer's music, which is an arrangement of the "Goal & Score" fanfare from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, which serves as the goal and results theme for the Yoshi's Island track. This was also the first tour since the Sundae Tour, 17 tours prior, to not introduce any new gold item. Excluding tours that introduce re-routes of courses, this was the first tour to introduce both a new course and a classic course since the 2019 Paris Tour, and was also the first tour overall to introduce a new course, a classic course, and an R/T variant simultaneously. This was also the first tour since the Animal Tour ten tours prior to feature the Snap a Photo bonus challenge.

The Spring Celebration event that began in the previous tour continued through this tour. The thirteenth set of Expert Challenges began in this tour. Extreme Challenges also debuted in this tour.

This was the tenth tour in a row to share the same name as a previous tour.

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 balloon battle in DS Twilight House in the Mii Cup using the Yoshi 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 April 5, 2023 and ended on April 18, 2023. Event tokens could be earned by collecting them on courses and by hitting spring eggs.

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.

Names in other languages
Tour Yoshi (2023)