United Cinemas Sapporo Factory & IMAX
Sapporo · JapanConfirmed ×2
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 21 September 2026.
1 Jo-kan Sapporo Factory 4-1-1Kita Ichijo Higashi, Chuo-ku, Hokkaida, 060-0031 · Open in maps ↗
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
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
- 3United Cinemas Sapporo Factory & IMAX · 24.9×13.9 m · picture 326 m², 6% never lit
- 4Typical multiplex screen · 12×5 m
Scale check
Familiar objects, same scale as the screen
6 double-decker buss fit on this screen (2 across × 3 up · 346 m² total)
What you actually see
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- Screen
- 346 m²
- Picture
- 326 m²
- Screen used
- 94%
0.8 m of this screen — 6% of it — stays dark for a 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
Confirmed ×2We treat a figure as confirmed only when two independent sources agree.
- Screen dimensions
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- Projector
- confirmed by 2 sources
- · LF Examiner industry listing (2021)
- · imaxguide, the r/IMAX database ↗
- Operating status
- verified open
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