TOHO Cinemas Nagoya Bay City

The Virgin Cinemas Nagoya Bay City is the first movie theater to operate in the Minato Ward since the (in or around) 1989 closure of the Port Cinema (formerly the Tsukiji Theater). Minato also once had five movie theaters as of 1960.

The Virgin Cinemas Nagoya Bay City opened its doors on November 23, 1999 with 12 screens and a total capacity of 2,671 seats, and was renamed the TOHO Cinemas Nagoya Bay City on February 6, 2004.

It was located across the road from the main building of AEON Mall Nagoya Minato. A connecting bridge was also installed from the second floor of the main building’s specialty shopping area to the east, but removal work was carried out between May 9 and July 31, 2022. As a result, pedestrians now need to use the crosswalk at the Shinagawa Crossing on the north side when crossing the road.

Only 10 of its auditoriums were normal screens, and the remaining Screens 11 and 12 are premier theaters, which house 54 and 98 seats. The largest normal auditorium is Screen 4 with 488 seats, eight wheelchairs, and MasterImage 3D installations. The rest of the auditoriums have two wheelchairs, with ranging capacities of 97-334.

The TOHO Cinemas Nagoya Bay City closed for the final time on November 30, 2020 due to the closure of the aforementioned mall. The building continued to exist after the closure but demolition work began on March 1, 2021, the day after the closure of the main AEON Mall, and was completed around November of that same year, leaving the site vacant.

At the time, it is unclear what will become of the site. TOHO Cinemas has announced that it will open a theater in The Landmark Nagoya Sakae, which is scheduled to open in mid-2026 in the Sakae area of Nagoya.

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