United Cinemas Urawa & IMAX

Urawa · JapanSingle source

PremiumCinemaIQ rates this IMAX room C, 41/100 — a modest premium screen, 161 m² of lit picture. Two independent sources agree on the projector. Data read 5 November 2026.

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11-1 Higashitakasagocho - Urawa Parco 6F, Urawa, 330-0055 · Open in maps ↗

IQ 41

Respectable, but not the full IMAX proposition.

Spec sheet

Projection: IMAX Commercial Laser
Screen: 18.2 m × 9.2 m (167 m²)
Screen shape: 1.98:1 — the fabric itself
Picture shown: 1.90:1
15/70mm film: No
Sound: Not published
Seats: 386
Screen type: Not a dome — curvature not recorded
Opened: 2010
Operator

Why IQ 41

Screen size9/38

161 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 Urawa & IMAX · 18.2×9.2 m · picture 161 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 · 167 m² total)

What you actually see

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dark

Screen: 167 m²
Picture: 161 m²
Screen used: 96%

0.7 m of this screen's width — 4% of it — stays dark for an IMAX 1.90 showing, in bands at the sides.

Worth travelling for?

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Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro IMAX

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You'd get 191% more screen, the full 1.43 frame.

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T-Joy Yokohama

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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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