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Cinema Sunshine Tsuchiura & IMAX

Tsuchiura-Shi · JapanSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 40/100 — a modest premium screen, 147 m² of lit picture. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.

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367 Kamitakatsu, Tsuchiura-shi, 300-0811 · Open in maps ↗

C
IQ 40

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection
IMAX Laser XT
Screen
16.7 m × 9.2 m (154 m²)
Screen shape
1.82:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown
1.90:1
15/70mm film
No
Sound
Not published
Seats
259
Screen type
Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened
2012
Operator

Why IQ 40

Screen size8/38

147 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · one source

Projection24/36

IMAX Laser XT · one source

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification published

How big, really?

1234

Drawn to scale · figure = 1.7 m

  • 1Traumpalast Leonberg IMAX · 38.8×21.0 m · picture 792 m², 3% never lit
  • 2BFI IMAX · 26×20.0 m · picture 473 m², 9% never lit
  • 3Cinema Sunshine Tsuchiura & IMAX · 16.7×9.2 m · picture 147 m², 4% never lit
  • 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

2 double-decker buses fit on this screen (1 across × 2 up · 154 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark
Screen
154 m²
Picture
147 m²
Screen used
96%

0.4 m of this screen's height — 4% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing. The projector here can't produce the full 1.43 frame, so the top and bottom of the screen are never used at all.

Worth travelling for?

Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach

Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro IMAX

Tokyo · 35 mi away

You'd get 217% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.

A

Shinjuku Wald 9

Tokyo · about 35 mi away

B

T-Joy Yokohama

Yokohama · about 55 mi away

B

Better screens within 75 mi

•Where to next

All of Japan

Elsewhere in Japan

Where this comes from

Single source

We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.

Screen dimensions
one source, listed twice — these copy each other
Projector
single source
Operating status
verified open

Sources disagree

The 2021 industry listing records this venue as xenon; we publish laseron the strength of a more recent source. IMAX has converted a great many screens to laser since that listing closed, so the newer record usually wins — but you should know the two don't match.

The projector here rests on a single source. It is the weakest field we hold across the network.

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