Harry Potter studio tour Tokyo – the best bits, including Ministry of Magic replica set, quidditch court to pose in, and Hermione’s Hogwarts Yule Ball gown
- The Warner Bros Studio Tour Tokyo, the Making of Harry Potter attraction, newly opened in Japan, has everything Harry Potter fans could want
- There is real attention to detail, including replica sets made by the film’s designers – some exclusive – props from the movies and plenty of interactive fun
There are plenty of Harrys, but lesser known characters are well represented, too; several visitors are wearing latex Dobby heads and there’s a particularly stunning Luna Lovegood, complete with trademark winged Spectrespecs glasses.
While the concept here is similar to London’s studio tour – a series of explorable sets, interactive experiences and areas devoted to topics such as model making – there’s one key difference.
The Tokyo sets are replicas of those seen in the movies, albeit ones built by the original designers, who made them in Britain before loading them into 350 Tokyo-bound shipping containers.
This approach has worked in Tokyo’s favour, because the Japanese tour has a Ministry of Magic, a spooky Defence of the Dark Arts classroom and other sets that are not on show in London.
Before the tour, visitors can stop by the Frog Café, inside a replica of Hogwarts’ Great Hall (complete with genuine Yorkstone flooring), where long tables bear the colours of the four houses, and house flags flutter from the ceiling.
