Saitama City Space Theater

Public shows at Saitama City Space Theater: Yes

Live staff commentary, children's and music shows, fulldome films; rooftop stargazing events. 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.

682-2 Nishiki-cho, Omiya-ku, JACK Omiya, Saitama, Saitama, Japan 330-0853. Phone +81 486-47-0011.

Saitama City Space Theater has a 23 m (75 ft) dome and 290 seats

That makes it one of the large domes, built for big public shows. 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 Goto Chiron III, together with a Virtuarium 8k (e-shift) digital system: the star ball gives pinpoint stars, the digital system fills the dome with video.

How dark the real sky is outside Saitama City Space Theater

Saitama City Space Theater 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.

Saitama City Space Theater 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 JACK Omiya building near Omiya Station (map embed): 35.908°N, 139.622°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Saitama City Space Theater

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 27 km (17 mi). Mitaka campus open daily for a free self-guided historic-telescope tour; regular stargazing evenings by lottery
• National Astronomical Observatory of JapanMitaka, Tokyo, Japan, 27 km (17 mi). Mitaka campus open daily 10 am-5 pm, free; solar observation weekends; regular stargazing open course
• Gekko ObservatoryKannami, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, 104 km (65 mi). Open 9:30 am-5 pm, closed Mondays and 4th Tuesday; adults 1200 yen incl. planetarium
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 108 km (67 mi). Public night viewing with 60cm reflector on open days; beginner astrophotography classes
• Usuda Star DomeSaku, Nagano, Japan, 112 km (69 mi). Public viewing through large telescope, 10 am-10 pm

Astronomy clubs within 150 km

• Astronomical Society of JapanMitaka, Japan, 26 km (16 mi)

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Saitama City Youth Space Science MuseumSaitama (Urawa-ku), Saitama, Japan, 3 km (2 mi), 23.0 m dome
• Kawaguchi City Science Museum (Science World, SKIP City)Kawaguchi, Saitama, Japan, 12 km (8 mi), 20.0 m dome
• Galaxcity (Adachi Children's Science Center)Adachi, Tokyo, Japan, 20 km (12 mi), 23.0 m dome
• Hokutopia PlanetariumKita, Tokyo, Japan, 20 km (13 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Tamarokuto Science CenterNishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 21 km (13 mi), 28.0 m dome

Saitama City Space Theater record

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