Immersive Fort Tokyo offers innovative theme park experience

Marketing and entertainment firm Katana, yesterday launched their ‘Immersive Fort Tokyo’ theme park  which Katana claims to be the world’s first theme park focused on providing immersive experiences on this scale in which participants experience dramatic events usually seen in the worlds of films, anime, or games.

Immersive Fort Tokyo is inspired by London’s interactive theatre shows, which started during the 2000s. Immersive Fort Tokyo has a European-style interior featuring 12 attractions, as well as six stores and restaurants inside a 30,000 square-metre facility.

Visitors play a key role in the stories and narratives that unfold within the park. In ‘The Sherlock – Baker Street Murder Case’, they will encounter a murder mystery, which propels them to go around the park in pursuit of the suspect, either alongside detective Holmes or on their own.

The attractions are designed to enable visitors to feel more personally involved with, for example, ‘Spy Action’ which puts audience members in the middle of a situation where mafia and spy agents engage in a gunfight. Mafia members point prop guns at the audience and order visitors to stay back, while some are even taken hostage.

Other attractions include a cabaret-style live performance show and an escape-room type attraction where visitors have to work together to evade an enemy, which focuses on providing participants with an immersive experience.

In addition, there are attractions that collaborate with some popular anime titles, such as ‘Oshi no Ko’ and ‘Tokyo Revengers’ in which participants will have to solve puzzles and riddles while interacting with the story’s characters.

Thrill seekers should make a beeline for Jack the Ripper horror maze. You’re transported to London 135 years ago, where you’ll witness a murder by the notorious Jack the Ripper. Inadvertently you become his next target, which means you need to escape the maze before he catches up with you.

Basic one-day tickets are priced at $70 (¥6,800) for adults and $30 (¥3,000) for children age four to 11. Visitors need to pay extra to experience some of the attractions.

Osaka-based Katana is headed by Tsuyoshi Morioka, who is known for his role in turning around Universal Studios Japan when he was an executive there.

According to Japan Times, Katana is also looking to open a massive theme park in Okinawa Prefecture in 2025 which will Integrate vast forestry.

The new nature-inspired theme park, called Junglia, will be built on a former golf course site that stretches from the village of Nakijin to the city of Nago.

Katana was also involved with the renewal of Seibuen Amusement Park in Saitama Prefecture, which reopened in 2021. And the firm has been helping with the rebranding and management of Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki Prefecture.

With such a wide range of attractions, Immersive Fort Tokyo offers something for everyone, whether you like mystery, horror or just enjoy solving puzzles.

Visit the Immersive Fort Tokyo website for more information.

Images. Credit: Katana Inc.