Nintendo Museum

Pros

• We stayed until basically closing time, it was really great, even without being a huge Nintendo video game nerd (it's a fairly recent hobby for me). Highly recommended.
• If you are a Nintendo fan then there is the recently (Oct24) opened Nintendo Museum in Uji that could be combined with the day trip there.
• Day 10 (Tue, Apr 13): South Kyoto. Nintendo Museum in the morning (praying to the lottery gods lol).
• Check daily or set a reminder for ticket drawings (opens up 60 days to 3 months prior).
• Note that this day heavily based around if we can get tickets to the Nintendo Museum and for what time

Cons

• Shinkansen plus Nintendo at 2 plus Yokai at 5:30 is a lot of transit for a first Kyoto afternoon. I'd drop Nintendo or the festival, not try both off the train.
• I personally liked the Nintendo museum, but for a lot of my friends who have gone they thought it was pretty lacking and mentioned they probably would have cut it from their itinerary.
• Make sure you have already got your Nintendo museum tickets. They are +1 month ahead lotto purchases only. They sell out super fast because ya know, dorks.
• Kyoto planning was a bit tricky in general to plan with our short window there, especially with the Nintendo Museum thrown in. It was one of the first things I booked before I realized how out of the way it was from most of our other rec...
• This was great since we grew up playing Nintendo. If you are not a Nintendo fan, however, the exhibits likely won't be as compelling.