Source: tokyo-joypolis.comChecked 29 Aug 2026

Joypolis in English: What Is On Now, and What Is Not Announced

Tokyo Joypolis is an amusement park on floors three to five of DECKS Tokyo Beach, a shopping complex in Odaiba. It is run by CA Sega Joypolis, occupies 9,600 square metres across those three floors, reopened in its current form in July 2012, and turns thirty in July 2026.

The rides are priced one by one — mostly 700 to 1,000 yen — and several of them carry licences: a rhythm-game coaster, a Transformers attraction, a HOUSE OF THE DEAD shooting attraction, an Ace Attorney attraction, and, marked NEW on the day we looked, one built around NARUTO. Alongside those, the park runs collaboration events that come and go. The names on the current list carry numbers: BLUELOCK is the third of its kind here, Idolmaster SideM the third, hololive the sixth.

For a park whose draw changes several times a year, the English site does a lot. Every ticket type carries a price. Every attraction carries a price. The opening hours are there, the last entry time is there, and so is the fact that you can leave and come back all day.

Then you look for what is on, and the page thins out.

We counted on 29 August 2026. The English events page lists five things. The Japanese one lists eight.

Quick Facts

Sources: Tokyo Joypolis — English and Japanese, both checked 29 August 2026.

The English Site Is Not Thin

This is worth saying first, because it is unusual.

The English page gives all five ticket types with their prices, including the annual pass and a late-evening ticket that only covers two rides. The attractions page prices each ride separately — mostly 700 to 1,000 yen — and marks which ones a passport covers. Opening hours vary by date and the page says so, with a colour-coded calendar and a note that the last entry is 45 minutes before closing.

It also answers the question people ask at the gate: if you leave the park, you can come back the same day as many times as you like. The address, the two nearest stations and the bus routes are all in English as well. What is not there is how long the trip takes — the Japanese access page gives the ride times from Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro and Tokyo Station, and the English one does not.

Five Events in English, Eight in Japanese

The gap is not in the ticket prices. It is in the calendar.

On the day we checked, the English events page carried five entries: a summer festival, the park's thirtieth anniversary year, a collaboration with two Japanese entertainers, an insect exhibition held outside the building, and BLUELOCK in JOYPOLIS 3, running to 11 September 2026.

The Japanese page carried those five and three more. Two of the three are anime collaborations, and both of them start after the English list runs out: Idolmaster SideM in JOYPOLIS 3, from 12 September to 6 December 2026, and a hololive collaboration, from 16 October to 27 December 2026. The third is a short location test of a mixed-reality shooting game, priced at 700 yen a play.

We are not listing those dates so you can plan around them. They will pass, and others will replace them. The point is the shape of it: everything on the English list was already running or close to ending, and everything starting later was only in Japanese. If you are choosing a month for your trip, that is the part that matters.

"More Info (Japanese version only)"

The English page does not hide the gap. It marks it.

All five English entries carry the same line under them: More Info (Japanese version only). The event periods themselves are in English, so you can see that something runs from July to September — you simply cannot read what it is. One entry keeps its Japanese title untranslated. Another, the BLUELOCK collaboration, gets a single line in English: "Collaborative Event." The Japanese version of the same entry names the anime and says it is the third time the park has run it.

The same shape shows up one level higher. The English front page never says what Joypolis is — there is no line calling it an amusement park, no mention of the company that runs it outside the copyright notice at the foot of the page. It prices everything and describes nothing.

So the announcement exists in English. The description does not.

The Attractions Are in English. The Calendar Is Not.

Collaborations here are not only events. Some become attractions, and those do appear in English, with prices.

NARUTO MUSIC DANCE is on the English attractions list, marked NEW, priced at 1,000 yen, and covered by a passport. What the English page does not say is how long it stays. Neither does the Japanese one. There is no end date on either.

The numbering tells you something the pages do not spell out. BLUELOCK is the third collaboration of its kind. The hololive one is the sixth. Idolmaster SideM is also a third. So these come round again — but how often, and with what gap between them, we cannot tell you. We looked for an archive of past collaborations and found none, in either language.

There is no English-only social account either. The English page links to the same X, Facebook and Instagram accounts as the Japanese one. We have not read those accounts, so we cannot tell you what language they post in.

One Section for the Money

Three things sit on the Japanese side of the ticket pages and not the English one.

• The discounts. The Japanese ticket section has a page of its own for them: advance tickets, a two-adult pair rate, a student rate, set tickets with a nearby attraction and with the Yurikamome day pass, group rates, birthday offers. That page has no English counterpart. We are not listing the terms, because each runs for a set period and the periods change — the point is that the page exists on one side only.
• The in-park price. Visitors who enter free can buy a passport inside at a lower rate, because the admission portion is deducted. The English page shows one of those figures — ¥4,300 for visitors aged 60 and over — but not the rest, and not the reason it exists.
• Who enters free. The English page names two groups: children under six, and adults aged 60 and over. The Japanese page names four, adding visitors who are pregnant and carrying a maternal health handbook, and visitors with a disability certificate plus up to two companions.

One detail is worth checking at the window rather than on the page. The English ticket table says admission is free for children under seven; a note further down the same page says under six. If you are travelling with a six-year-old, ask before you buy — the difference is ¥1,400.

Before You Go

Everything above was checked on 29 August 2026. The prices are the ones published for that date, and the events are the ones listed then.

Three limits worth stating. We could not find a regular closing day in either language — that is not the same as saying there isn't one. We are not comparing the resale price with the official one, because that means converting currency on a day we cannot know and adding fees we have not confirmed. And one attraction sits in an unresolved state: the resale listing says a VR attraction is not covered by the passport, while we could not find that attraction on the official list in either language. Ask at the counter if it matters to you.

This guide does not track which collaboration is running. By the time you read it, the names above will have changed. What is unlikely to have changed is which page you end up reading to find out.

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