Tim Burton’s Labyrinth Opens in Tokyo November 25, With 100,000 Tickets Already Sold

Tokyo, Japan — Tim Burton’s Labyrinth, a walk-through maze of rooms filled with sets, sculptures of Burton’s characters, and more than 150 of his original sketches, opens November 25 at CREVIA BASE Tokyo and runs through February 21, 2027. It’s the exhibition’s first stop in Asia, and dates are selling out.

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What Is Tim Burton’s Labyrinth?

Tim Burton’s Labyrinth is a maze of themed rooms that takes about 60 minutes to walk through. Visitors choose which doors to open as they go, so two people can see different rooms, and the exhibition’s site says every route has the same number of rooms.

• The films: The exhibition’s site names Corpse Bride, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Beetlejuice. The organizer’s announcements add Edward Scissorhands and Sweeney Todd.
• The art: More than 150 of Burton’s original sketches are on display, and the organizer says some have never been shown in Japan. The exhibition’s site says the artworks come from Burton’s private collection.
• The sets: The sets, characters, and costumes are replicas based on his films.
• Photos: Photos and video are allowed without flash, except of the original artworks.

Rihito Itagaki, the actor who is the exhibition’s official supporter in Japan, said at a September 8 press event that the doors reminded him of the scene in The Nightmare Before Christmas where each door opens onto a different world.

Burton calls it a “fantastic fair,” according to the exhibition’s English site. The organizer’s Japanese announcement uses the word funhouse and explains it to readers as a haunted house or a trick house.

Felipe de Lima, the exhibition’s creative director, said at the press event that it was built from scratch with Burton and that the idea is to experience Burton’s world by playing. LETSGO, a company based in Madrid, created the exhibition with Burton.

Dates, Hours, and Location

• Dates: November 25, 2026 through February 21, 2027.
• Where: CREVIA BASE Tokyo, 6-4-25 Toyosu, Koto City, Tokyo.
• Getting there: Three minutes on foot from Shijo-mae Station on the Yurikamome line.
• Hours: 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. The organizer says hours may change.
• Closed days: The organizer’s September 25 announcement lists Tuesdays and January 1 and 2 as closed days. As of October 3, Fever’s calendar also sells entry times on those days.
• Arrival: The exhibition’s site recommends arriving 15 minutes early, and entry isn’t allowed after the time on the ticket.

Tickets and Prices

Tickets are sold on Fever for a set entry time, with entries every 30 minutes. The exhibition’s site says a box office at the venue also sells tickets, but they may be sold out by the time you arrive.

The organizer said on September 25 that advance sales had passed 100,000 tickets, the fastest of any stop on the tour. Prices change by day and entry time, and these are the prices on Fever as of October 3:

• Lowest prices: Weekday afternoons and evenings.
• Premium: Two rounds of entry on the same day, a limited edition printed artwork, and priority admission.
• Refunds: All sales are final, and tickets can’t be changed. They can be transferred to another person in the Fever app.
• Merchandise: The exhibition’s site lists Tokyo-exclusive merchandise, sold at the venue.

Where Tim Burton’s Labyrinth Has Been

Tokyo is the ninth city for the exhibition, which opened in Madrid in 2022. The organizer gives attendance figures for the first seven:

• Madrid: September 29, 2022 to April 9, 2023. 200,000 visitors.
• Paris: May 19 to August 20, 2023. 240,000 visitors.
• Brussels: October 20, 2023 to February 4, 2024. 125,000 visitors.
• Barcelona: March 8 to June 16, 2024. 150,000 visitors.
• Berlin: July 19 to November 3, 2024. 100,000 visitors.
• Milan: December 12, 2024 to March 9, 2025. 180,000 visitors.
• Mexico City: June 26 to December 14, 2025. 350,000 visitors.
• Monterrey, Mexico: May 8 to August 16, 2026.

None of the eight earlier cities is in the United States, and neither the exhibition’s site nor Burton’s lists a stop after Tokyo.

Is There a Tim Burton Museum in the United States?

As of October 2026, Tim Burton’s site lists no permanent museum, and the only current exhibition on it is Tim Burton’s Labyrinth in Tokyo.

Burton’s site lists these U.S. exhibitions of his art:

• New York: The Museum of Modern Art, November 22, 2009 to April 26, 2010.
• Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 29 to October 31, 2011.
• Las Vegas: Lost Vegas at the Neon Museum, October 15, 2019 to February 15, 2020.
• Los Angeles: Burton’s artwork was part of Stories of Cinema at the Academy Museum from September 2021 to May 2024.

The World of Tim Burton, his other touring exhibition, has been to cities including Prague, Tokyo, Seoul, and London since 2014, and its venue list on Burton’s site has no U.S. city. Its last listed venue was the Design Museum in London, from October 25, 2024 to May 26, 2025.

Tim Burton and Japan

The organizer says this is Burton’s first exhibition in Japan in about 10 years. The World of Tim Burton was at the Mori Arts Gallery in Tokyo from November 1, 2014 to January 4, 2015, and in Osaka from February 27 to April 19, 2015.

In a statement released by the organizer, Burton said he grew up watching Japanese monster movies and science fiction, and that Tokyo always gives him new ideas.

More Tim Burton in the U.S. This Season

• Aurora, Colorado: The Nightmare Before Christmas is carved from about two million pounds of ice at Gaylord Rockies from November 20, 2026 through January 3, 2027.
• Disneyland: Haunted Mansion Holiday, where Jack Skellington takes over the mansion with Nightmare Before Christmas decor, has a music-box gingerbread house more than 10 feet tall this year.
• Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A vintage store built a free Beetlejuice walkthrough, open weekends through November 1.
• Theaters: The Nightmare Before Christmas returned to theaters on October 2.

Tim Burton’s Labyrinth runs November 25, 2026 through February 21, 2027 at CREVIA BASE Tokyo. Details are at tokyo.timburtonexhibition.com.