Anniversary Tour (2023)

The Anniversary Tour is the hundred-and-fifth tour of Mario Kart Tour, which began on September 20, 2023 and will end on October 3, 2023. The tour celebrates the game's fourth anniversary; like the previous Anniversary Tour, it does not include the number of elapsed years in its name. This is the final tour in Mario Kart Tour to introduce new content to the game; all tours following it recycle content from previous tours, starting with the Battle Tour beginning on October 4, 2023. It was announced in an in-game news post titled "About Upcoming Scheduled Tours" on September 11, 2023, much earlier than usual for tours.

The tour introduces the third routes for Athens Dash, Rome Avanti, and Madrid Drive, as well as the R/T variants for Berlin Byways 3 and Sydney Sprint 3. In addition to the new courses, Gold Mario debuts as a fully playable character after having appeared exclusively in the Coin Rush mode since the beginning of the game, and the Gold Mario Cup also debuts as the final new cup for the game. The final wave of Mii Racing Suits, Wave 41, which only consists of the Koopa Clown Mii Racing Suit, was also released.

The tour's course selection consists of the third routes of every city course in the game (with the exception of Los Angeles Laps, which uses Los Angeles Laps 2, the third route of that course to be added to the game), as well as both New York Minute B and Paris Promenade B, making this the first tour since the previous Anniversary Tour to consist entirely of new courses and the first tour overall since Battle Mode's introduction to not feature a classic battle course.

This tour's Coin Rush course is Tokyo Blur 3, which was reused from the Summer Festival Tour. The menu's background features the Parthenon and the statue as the landmark for this tour, which was reused from the Spring Tour.

This is the last tour to feature the fourteenth set of Expert Challenges, which first appeared in the Night Tour.

This is the first tour to not have any banner spotlight items exclusive to one week of the tour (in this case the second week); instead, three banner items are available on both weeks.

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 London Loop 3T in the Mii Cup using the Koopa Clown 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
Gold Pipes, including the All-Clear Pipe, randomly shoot out one of the following regular High-End items. The appearance rates 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 September 19, 2023 and will end on October 3, 2023. Event tokens can be earned by causing opponents to crash.

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.