109 Cinemas Shobu & IMAX
Saitama · JapanSingle source
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 42/100 — a modest premium screen, 178 m² of lit picture. That rests on a single source. Data read 21 September 2026.
Mallage Shobu 3F, 3555, Ooazashobu, Shobumachi, Minamisaitama-gun, Saitama.
Mallage Shobu 3F, 3555, Ooazashobu, Shobumachi, Minamisaitama-gun, Saitama, 346-0195 · Open in maps ↗
Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX Commercial Laser
- Screen
- 18.4 m × 9.8 m (180 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.88:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.90:1
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- Not published
- Seats
- Not published
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- —
- Operator
Why IQ 42
How big, really?
Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m
- 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
- 2BFI IMAX · 26×20 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
- 3109 Cinemas Shobu & IMAX · 18.4×9.8 m
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
2 double-decker buss fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 180 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 180 m²
- Picture
- 178 m²
- Screen used
- 99%
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro IMAX
Tokyo · 24 mi away
You'd get 170% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.
Shinjuku Wald 9
Tokyo · 28 mi away
T-Joy Yokohama
Yokohama · 42 mi away
Better screens within 75 mi
•Where to next
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Where this comes from
Single sourceWe treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- single source
- Projector
- single source
- Operating status
- verified open
The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.
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