MAPPA EXPO Tokyo 2026: Tickets, Dates & Best Time to Go

Prices, dates and ticket availability verified 23 September 2026

MAPPA EXPO 15th Anniversary is open now at YURAKUCHO MUSEUM, in the basement of Tokyo International Forum, and runs until 7 December 2026. It marks 15 years of the studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man and Attack on Titan: The Final Season, with work from all 23 of the titles it has made.

Three things decide whether your visit works: entry is timed, the exhibition runs in two periods with different exhibits, and it closes for two days in between. And one thing has changed since it opened: every September date has sold out. Here’s what’s still available, how to buy MAPPA EXPO tickets from overseas, and which period is right for you.

MAPPA EXPO at a glance

• Dates: Period 1 until 25 October; Period 2 from 28 October to 7 December
• Closed: 26 and 27 October
• Hours: 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:00
• Tickets: ¥2,000 in advance for adults, timed entry, sold only through Lawson Ticket
• Availability: September sold out; October and every Period 2 date on sale when we checked on 23 September

MAPPA EXPO dates, and the two-day gap

• Period 1: 16 September to 25 October 2026
• Closed: 26 and 27 October, for the changeover
• Period 2: 28 October to 7 December 2026
• Hours: 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:00

Some exhibits change between the two periods, so the dates decide what you actually see. The Jujutsu Kaisen area shows material from different seasons in each period, and the Chainsaw Man and Attack on Titan areas rotate part of theirs.

💡 Japan Pro Tip: If your Tokyo trip includes 26 or 27 October, MAPPA EXPO is shut for the changeover. “Runs September to December” sounds continuous, and it isn’t. If those are your only free days, you can’t go at all.

MAPPA EXPO tickets and prices

• Adults: ¥2,000 in advance, ¥2,200 on the day
• University and high school students: ¥1,600 / ¥1,800
• Junior high and elementary school students: ¥1,200 / ¥1,400
• Preschool children: free
• Merchandise Set Ticket (A, B or C): ¥4,000 / ¥4,200

Entry is by timed reservation, with slots every 30 minutes from 10:00 to 17:00. Your ticket shows an entry group, a number and a meeting time, and you’re let in in that order. You can buy up to 10 tickets per person for each slot.

MAPPA EXPO tickets are sold only through Lawson Ticket, and you also need one to use the shop. There’s no separate shop-only entry.

• In Japan: Lawson Ticket (in Japanese), or any Lawson or Ministop convenience store.
• From overseas: the Lawson Ticket page for overseas visitors. More on how that works below.

Which dates are still available

When we checked Lawson Ticket on 23 September, every September slot had sold out. Both October blocks of Period 1 were still on sale, and so was every date in Period 2, from 28 October to 7 December.

Online sales for Period 1 close at 17:00 on 25 October, and for Period 2 at 17:00 on 7 December, unless they sell out first. Day tickets cost ¥200 more and depend on slots being left, so don’t rely on them at weekends. All of September has already gone.

💡 Japan Pro Tip: You don’t need to read Japanese to check availability. On Lawson Ticket’s Japanese page, each block of dates shows either 発売中, meaning on sale, or 予定枚数終了, meaning the planned number of tickets has sold out. Match the dates, look for those characters, and you’ll know before you try to book MAPPA EXPO tickets.

How to buy MAPPA EXPO tickets from overseas

Lawson Ticket runs a separate sales page for visitors who live outside Japan and have a credit card issued outside Japan. It covers both periods and works on a first-come, first-served basis. Here’s how it goes:

• 1. Open the overseas page. Lawson Ticket’s overseas page is linked from the official MAPPA EXPO site and is set up for international buyers.
• 2. Choose your date, slot and ticket type. If you want a Merchandise Set Ticket, pick the version now; it can’t be changed later.
• 3. Pay by card. Visa, JCB, Mastercard, Diners Club and American Express are accepted. Your card company sets the exchange rate.
• 4. Save your reservation number and phone number. Overseas sales are paper tickets only, and you need both details to print yours.
• 5. Print it at a Lawson in Japan. At the Loppi machine in any Lawson or Ministop store, choose Lawson Ticket procedures, enter your reservation number and phone number, and take the slip it prints to the till within 30 minutes.

💡 Japan Pro Tip: Print your tickets the day you land rather than the morning of your slot. Lawson stores are open 24 hours and there’s one near almost every station, but if the phone number you registered doesn’t match, the machine won’t print your ticket, and that’s far easier to sort out with a day in hand.

If you’re already in Japan, you can also buy at a Loppi machine by searching the event’s L-code: 38842 for 1–25 October, 38843 for 28 October–15 November, and 38844 for 16 November–7 December.

The Merchandise Set Ticket

The ¥4,000 Merchandise Set Ticket bundles entry with an acrylic panel of new artwork, in three versions: A for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, B for Attack on Titan: The Final Season and C for Jujutsu Kaisen. You pick the version when you buy and collect the panel at the venue.

Three rules matter. The version can’t be changed once bought. The set tickets are limited and end when they sell out. And the panels aren’t sold in the MAPPA EXPO shop at all, so the set ticket is the only way to get one. Each person can use only one set ticket per entry.

💡 Japan Pro Tip: Every visitor also gets a free postcard of original animation art, in an envelope styled like the bags animators keep their cuts in. You choose the series at the entrance (Chainsaw Man, Attack on Titan or Jujutsu Kaisen), and the design is one of five, at random. If you’re going as a group, pick different series so you come away with a spread.

What’s inside MAPPA EXPO

It’s MAPPA’s biggest exhibition yet: production materials including original key animation, large sets and video installations, with a special exhibit in each of the three headline areas.

• Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc: the film’s story told through its production materials, from Denji and Reze’s first meeting through the fight between Chainsaw Man and Bomb to the ending. The special exhibit is a life-size figure of Bomb, Reze’s devil form, shown here for the first time.
• Attack on Titan: The Final Season: the story either side of the Rumbling, through to the finale. The Rumbling itself is recreated in sculpture and video, with Eren’s final Titan form leading the Wall Titans, and a corner on the hill from the final scene shows its original watercolour background art for the first time.
• Jujutsu Kaisen: the series’ signature battles, told as highlights. The special exhibit, Yuji Itadori: Circling Memories, pairs a set built like a train carriage with battle footage, a video looking back on Yuji’s story, and a life-size figure of Yuji.

The production materials are the part worth slowing down for. Finished animation is everywhere online; layouts, key frames and storyboards are what you can only see in a room like this. There’s a free audio guide narrated by Kenjiro Tsuda, Reina Ueda, Yui Ishikawa and Asami Seto.

The shop sells exhibition-only merchandise with new artwork, including A3 posters, acrylic panels and tote bags, alongside goods for the other exhibited titles throughout the run. MAPPA has warned that the timing of some goods may change because of materials supply.

All 23 titles at MAPPA EXPO

Beyond the headline three, MAPPA EXPO covers everything MAPPA has made. In the order MAPPA lists them: Kids on the Slope, Teekyu, Terror in Resonance, Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World, Kakegurui, Banana Fish, Zombie Land Saga, Dorohedoro, Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill, Vinland Saga Season 2, Hell’s Paradise, Maboroshi, Bucchigiri?!, Oblivion Battery, the Ranma 1/2 TV series, the Inazuma Eleven film, Zenshu, the Rose of Versailles film and Lazarus.

The headline areas get the big installations, but the smaller titles are why long-time MAPPA fans should budget extra time. It’s rare to see Kids on the Slope and Lazarus, thirteen years apart, in the same room.

Which period should you book?

It depends on what you’re going for.

For Jujutsu Kaisen, this decides it. Period 1 shows production materials from season 1 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Period 2 moves on to season 2, with the Hidden Inventory and Shibuya Incident arcs, and the first part of season 3’s Culling Game.

For Chainsaw Man and Attack on Titan, part of each area rotates between periods. MAPPA hasn’t said which pieces, so if one specific exhibit is the reason you’re going, check the official MAPPA EXPO site before you book.

For availability, Period 2 is the easier booking right now. Period 1 is down to its October dates, and weekends go first.

Period 2 also lines up with autumn colour. Tokyo’s ginkgo and maples usually peak in late November, and Hibiya Park is a short walk from the venue. Our autumn foliage forecast has this year’s timing.

	Period 1	Period 2
Dates	16 September – 25 October	28 October – 7 December
Jujutsu Kaisen	Season 1 and Jujutsu Kaisen 0	Season 2 (Hidden Inventory and Shibuya Incident) and Season 3’s Culling Game Part 1
Chainsaw Man and Attack on Titan	Part of each area rotates between the two periods
Tickets (checked 23 September)	September sold out; October on sale	All dates on sale
Online sales close	25 October, 17:00	7 December, 17:00
Autumn colour nearby	Before the leaves turn	Tokyo’s ginkgo and maples usually peak in late November

How long to spend at MAPPA EXPO

We’d allow at least 90 minutes for the exhibition and the shop together, more if you’re a fan of several titles or want to listen to the full audio guide. Last entry is 17:00 and the doors close at 18:00, so an afternoon slot before 16:00 is the safer choice if you want the shop too. The shop is part of your visit, not a separate queue outside, so time spent there comes out of the same window.

Getting to MAPPA EXPO

YURAKUCHO MUSEUM, Tokyo International Forum B1F, 3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

• JR Yurakucho Station (Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines): about a minute on foot
• Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Station (Yurakucho Line): connected underground
• Tokyo Station: about five minutes on foot
• Haneda Airport: roughly 30 to 40 minutes, by the Tokyo Monorail to Hamamatsucho or the Keikyu Line to Shinagawa, then JR to Yurakucho. It’s close enough for a long Haneda layover.

It’s about as easy as a Tokyo venue gets: between two major stations, underground so the weather doesn’t matter, and a short walk from Ginza.

💡 Japan Pro Tip: Give the building ten minutes before or after. Tokyo International Forum’s Glass Building is one of the most striking interiors in central Tokyo, a huge curved glass atrium with walkways slung across it, and it’s free to walk through. Most people head straight down to the basement and never look up.

Eat and drink nearby

You’re in one of the best-fed corners of the city. The arches under the JR tracks between Yurakucho and Shimbashi are lined with small izakaya and yakitori bars, busiest after work and at their best in the evening. For something quicker, Tokyo International Forum has cafés and restaurants inside the complex, and Ginza’s department stores have food halls in their basements, a few minutes’ walk away.

Know before you go

• Book ahead. Entry is timed, advance tickets are ¥200 cheaper, and weekend slots sell out first.
• Arrive for your slot. Entry goes in order of the group and number printed on your ticket, so check the meeting time on it.
• Bring an older companion for younger children. Children of elementary school age and under must be accompanied by someone of high school age or older, and some of the content shows violence.
• Photography rules vary by zone, as at most anime exhibitions in Japan. Follow the signs rather than assuming.
• Keep your ticket for the shop. You need your MAPPA EXPO ticket to buy anything, and there’s no shop-only entry.
• Last entry is 17:00, an hour before closing. That’s enough for the exhibition, but tight if you want the shop too.
• Buying from abroad: use the overseas Lawson Ticket page, which takes credit cards issued outside Japan, and print your paper ticket at a Lawson after you land.

We update this page

MAPPA EXPO changes as it goes: dates sell out, Period 2 brings new material, and the nationwide tour will be announced. We recheck the official site and Lawson Ticket and update this page as those things happen, starting when Period 2 opens on 28 October.

FAQ

Worth building a day around

Yurakucho puts you between Tokyo Station and Ginza, which makes MAPPA EXPO an easy half-day: the exhibition, the Glass Building upstairs, then Ginza for lunch or the Imperial Palace East Gardens, about 15 minutes’ walk away. The gardens usually close on Mondays and Fridays.

For more of central Tokyo on foot, our Tokyo bucket list routes pick up from here, and our Tokyo museum guide covers the city’s other big collections. To see what else is on while you’re in town, check Tokyo this weekend. And if anime is the theme of your trip, Ghibli Park tickets work very differently, so book those first.

Last verified: 23 September 2026, against the official MAPPA EXPO site and Lawson Ticket (in Japanese).