Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro IMAX
Tokyo · JapanSize confirmed ×2
PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room A, 83/100 — a genuinely strong large-format room, 465 m² of lit picture, and it can show the full 1.43:1 frame. The projector rests on a single source. Data read 5 November 2026.
Japan's largest permanent cinema screen (25.8x18.9m, 1.43:1) with GT dual laser, Tokyo's flagship IMAX.
1-30-3 Higashi Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 170-0013 · Open in maps ↗
Excellent large-format presentation.
Spec sheet
- Projection
- IMAX GT Dual Laser
- Screen
- 25.8 m × 18.9 m (488 m²)
- Screen shape
- 1.37:1 — the fabric itself
- Picture shown
- 1.43:1 — full IMAX frame
- 15/70mm film
- No
- Sound
- IMAX 12-channel
- Seats
- 542
- Screen type
- Not a dome — curvature not recorded
- Opened
- 2019
- Operator
- Cinema Sunshine
Why IQ 83
465 m² of lit picture · full marks at 700 m² · 2 independent sources
IMAX GT Dual Laser · one source
1.43:1 · the widest frame this room can show
IMAX 12-channel · as published
How big, really?
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
- 3Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro IMAX · 25.8×18.9 m · picture 465 m², 5% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
8 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 4 up · 488 m² total)
What you actually see
Switch format — watch what lights up on this screen · why this matters
The full IMAX frame — the tallest picture that exists
- Screen
- 488 m²
- Picture
- 465 m²
- Screen used
- 95%
0.9 m of this screen's height — 5% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.43 showing.
Worth travelling for?
Your nearest premium screen isn't always the best one in reach
Nothing materially better within 75 mi — this is your best option locally.
•Where to next
Every premium screen in Tokyo · All of Japan
Also in Tokyo
Where this comes from
Size confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · Wikipedia
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- 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.
Showtimes
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