United Cinemas Sapporo Factory & IMAX

Sapporo · JapanSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room B, 50/100 — a solid premium screen without being exceptional, 326 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.

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1 Jo-kan Sapporo Factory 4-1-1Kita Ichijo Higashi, Chuo-ku, Hokkaida, 060-0031 · Open in maps ↗

IQ 50

Genuinely big screen, strong presentation.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 24.9 m × 13.9 m (346 m²)
Screen shape: 1.79:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 467
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2010
Operator

Why IQ 50

Screen size18/38

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

Projection24/36

IMAX Commercial Laser · 2 independent sources

Full 1.43 frame8/18

1.90:1 · the widest frame this room can show

Sound0/8

no sound specification 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
3United Cinemas Sapporo Factory & IMAX · 24.9×13.9 m · picture 326 m², 6% never lit
4Typical multiplex screen · 12 m wide, height not published

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Scale check

Familiar objects, same scale as the screen

6 double-decker buses fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 346 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 346 m²
Picture: 326 m²
Screen used: 94%

0.8 m of this screen's height — 6% 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.

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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: confirmed by 2 sources
Operating status: verified open

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