TOHO Cinema Hamamatsu

Do you love watching in a movie theater or a cinema (or whatever you call it in your country)?

Yeah I do.

But I’ve been living in Japan for 15 months now and I have never been to any of their cinemas, not even once because aside from there were no great movies to watch, I find it quite expensive for one movie. My boyfriend and I usually watch movies at least once a month in the Ph because it’s way cheaper than Japan. However, last Saturday, Iza and the guys wanted to watch Black Panther and me being a cheapo asked my friends who watched it already to make sure that the movie is gonna be worth it. This isn’t going to be a review but I’ll rate the movie later *wink.

After convincing myself to try, I finally decided to give it a try it but before that I did some research. HAHA. The only cinema available near my place is TOHO CINEMA, it is located just infront of my workplace, usually TOHO cinemas are located within a shopping mall and in my city it’s located in ZAZA City, on the 3rd floor.

So here are the prices just incase you want to experience watching movie in Japan.

For the regular price:

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• General

  ¥ 1,800

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• University/College Student

  ¥ 1,500

  (Bring your student ID card)

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• High school student

  ¥ 1,000

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• Middle / elementary school student (Jr. High, Elementary)

  ¥ 1,000

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• Infant (3 years old ~)/Child (3 & up)

  ¥ 1,000

They also offer discount service, just like what we did last Saturday, we bought the late show and it only cost us 1,300 JPY each, we saved 500 JPY.

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• TOHO CINEMAS DAY (every 14th of the month)

  ¥ 1,100

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• Cine MILEAGE Day (Tuesdays)

  ¥ 1,400

  (If you’re a member, you’ll only have to pay 1,400 JPY on Tuesdays)

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• First Day (e.g March 01)

  ¥ 1,100

  (On the 1st of every month, the movie is only 1,100 yen.)

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• Women’s Day or Ladies’ Service Day  (Wednesdays)

  ¥ 1,100

  (You can treat your sister or mother and only pay 1,100 JPY each).

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• AU Monday (Mondays)

  General · Undergraduate ¥ 1,100

  High school student or less ¥ 900(for AU smartpass, AU smartpass premium and videopass members only)

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• Late Show (showings after 20: 00)

  ¥ 1,300

  (Admission fee after 8 p.m. is 1,300 yen.)

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• Senior Discount (60 & up)

  ¥ 1,100

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• PWD Discount

  ¥ 1,000

  (One accompanying adult can also get a discount same as the PWD).

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• Senior Couple Discount (One person over 50 years old)

  Two people \ 2,200

  (If you’re a senior couple over 50 year old, you can get ticket for only 2,200 JPY for two).

You can visit their website here.

You can purchase tickets in advance online, they have English translation, or just get it at the ticket booth.

 

Ticket booth. You can choose your seat and there’s an English translation.

You just have to attach this to your armchair so no worries of spilling your food.

If you’re a couple or you have a companion and you don’t mind sharing a popcorn, it’s better to get the combo one, and split the price. For a single popcorn with one drink, it’s 670 JPY while the combo one is 1,030 with two drinks and a large bucket of popcorn, you can choose two flavors, I love the caramel.

Things I noticed:

1. Japanese watch and enjoy movie silently, during the entire time we’re watching the movie, we didn’t hear laughters or even gasps during the peak or even during the funniest part of the movie. Iza and I were laughing silently and pinching each other because everyone was really quite. I am not used to this.

2. Just like in restaurants or coffee shop, you have to clean your place and carry your trash and throw them in their proper place.

3. You have to be courteous and refrain from talking even if you’re already going out the cinema.

4. I love how they serve our popcorn, everything is so convenient.

5. You can’t see people chatting and laughing out loud even outside the cinema. Everyone walks out silently.

We finished watching around 11:20 and I can say that the experience was great. I enjoyed the movie and the popcorn too! If I’m gonna rate Black Panther, I’ll give it 7 out of 10. It was interesting and it did touched some important topics, it has some fun parts too and I love the outfits, the cinematography and the acting.

Have you watched Black Panther?

How do you find it?

Bored Sensei.