HISTORY 丸福樓の歴史

The old headquarters of Yamauchi Nintendo was established in 1933 as the head office of Yamauchi Nintendo, a general partnership company.
It was built by Fusajiro Yamauchi, the founder of Nintendo, his wife, and their son Sekira.
This building, which consists of three buildings, had the functions of a company building as a sales office, a main residence, and a warehouse.
All three buildings were designed by Mr. Kumazo Masuoka of Masuoka Architectural Office, and they were built at slightly different times.
While using a design with a different expression, the outer wall is the same as Pontocho Kabukiza.
Geometrically arranging brick tiles (scratch tiles) and emphasizing the horizontal line,
It is unified with a light type* modern design.
In addition, the building facing the main street looks like it was drawn using a straight line and a compass that looks like it was drawn with a ruler.
While it is a completely Western-style building in the Art Deco style characterized by continuous curves,
The main house and warehouse building were designed in the 1930s with elements of modern Japanese architecture.
Adopting the emperor's crown style* influenced by the spread of "Japanese things",
You can see the beautiful Japanese-Western architecture unique to those days.
*Wright type: Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959) American architect.
Along with Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, he is known as the "three great masters of modern architecture".
Representative buildings in Japan include the former Imperial Hotel and Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan.
*Teikan style: An architectural style popular in the 1930s with a tiled roof on top of a reinforced concrete body.

In September 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi bought a vacant house near here.
Founded "Nintendo Frame" (Fusajiro Yamauchi Shoten) there.
Manufactured and sold Hanafuda and Karuta, and in 1902, 13 years after its founding, it began manufacturing Japan's first playing cards.
After that, we moved here (Kyoto City Shimogyo Ward Kiyamachi Higashiiri),
In 1993, Yamauchi Nintendo, a general partnership company, started a Nintendo bone card business.
In 1949, the name was changed to Marufuku Karuta Sales Co., Ltd. (formerly Marufuku Co., Ltd.).
It continued to operate at this location until 1959.

In April 2022, it will open as a hotel < MARUFUKURO >.
Designed and supervised by Tadao Ando, the predecessor of Nintendo
The predecessor of Nintendo, whose main business was the manufacture and sale of karuta playing cards.
The name of <Marufuku Co., Ltd.> was added to the name of the hotel.
The hotel consists of three buildings, two of which are "existing buildings" with three stories above the ground,
One of the buildings is a 4-story "new building" (a part of the existing building was dismantled and repaired and then expanded).
Site area: 802㎡, total area: 1716.08㎡
(Existing building: 1180.60 m2, New building: 535.48 m2, Number of guest rooms: 18 rooms, 33 m2 to 79 m2 each)
All structures are made of reinforced concrete.
Renovation of existing building and design of new building with Tadao Ando Architect & Associates (Osaka City)
Nomu Architectural Design Office (Kyoto City) and Obayashi Corporation worked on the construction.
The existing building and the new building are connected side by side, advocating a fusion of old and new that strongly retains the memories of the time of its founding.
Create a comfortable place to spend time while making adjustments so as not to overwork the existing building
Started as a renovated hotel.