Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya

Public shows at Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya: Yes

Daily shows near Shibuya Station; closed Mondays. Check the official site for the current schedule and tickets before you go.

A planetarium show is the one astronomy outing that clouds and city lights cannot cancel. Most public shows run 30 to 50 minutes; live shows, where a presenter flies the sky to tonight's planets and constellations, are the best preparation for a night at a dark site. Shows often sell out on weekends and school holidays.

23-21 Sakuragaoka-cho, Shibuya Cultural Center Owada 12F, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan 150-0031. Phone +81 3-3464-2131.

Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya has a 17 m (56 ft) dome and 120 seats

That makes it a mid-size dome, typical of science museums and large universities. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

It runs an optical star projector, the Konica-Minolta Geministar III (S), together with a Konica-Minolta digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya

Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Planetariums sit in towns, so the dome shows the sky the street outside cannot; the dark sky places nearby show the real one.

Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya among the planetariums of Japan

Pink dots are planetariums, green dots observatories open to the public, squares dark sky places and diamonds star parties; select one for its page. See Planetariums in Japan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to Shibuya Cultural Center Owada (map embed): 35.655°N, 139.700°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 14 km (9 mi). Mitaka campus open daily 10 am-5 pm, free; solar observation weekends; regular stargazing open course
• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 15 km (9 mi). Mitaka campus open daily for a free self-guided historic-telescope tour; regular stargazing evenings by lottery
• Gekko ObservatoryKannami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 87 km (54 mi). Open 9:30 am-5 pm, closed Mondays and 4th Tuesday; adults 1200 yen incl. planetarium
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 126 km (78 mi). Public night viewing with 60cm reflector on open days; beginner astrophotography classes
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 129 km (80 mi). Public viewing through large telescope, 10 am-10 pm

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Astronomical Society of JapanMitaka, Japan, 13 km (8 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Planetarium BARMinato, Tokyo, Japan, 3 km (2 mi), 4.0 m dome
• Nakano ZERO Planetarium (Momijiyama Culture Center)Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, 6 km (4 mi), 15.0 m dome
• Science Museum (Kagaku Gijutsukan) - Sinra DomeChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, 6 km (4 mi), 10.0 m dome
• Konica Minolta Planetarium Manten in Sunshine CityToshima, Tokyo, Japan, 8 km (5 mi), 16.0 m dome
• National Museum of Nature and Science - Theater 36Tokyo, Japan, 10 km (6 mi), 13.0 m dome

Cosmo Planetarium Shibuya record

From the site's planetariums dataset (planetariumsglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.