Tokyo Trick Art Museum in Odaiba

If you searched for “odaiba trick art museum”, “trick art odaiba” or “Tokyo Trick Art Labyrinth”, this is the place. Its Japanese name is 東京トリックアート迷宮館, and it sits on the 4th floor of the Seaside Mall half of DECKS Tokyo Beach, the same building as Joypolis, LEGOLAND and Madame Tussauds.

It is not a gallery you walk through quietly. The paintings are flat, but they are designed so that a photo taken from the right spot puts you inside the picture. You bring the camera, and the museum supplies the illusion.

What’s inside

The theme is Japan, and mostly old Japan. The museum describes its trick art as Japanese and Edo-themed, and the experience as a mix of posing for photos, changing your viewing angle, whole-body illusion rooms and visual puzzles. There is also a section called the Masterpiece Gallery.

Guides that have covered the museum describe two main zones, an Edo Area and a Merry Ninja & Ghost Area. The Edo theme is what separates it from trick art museums in other countries: the scenes play with Japanese characters and settings, so the photos feel like Tokyo rather than a generic illusion park.

The whole-body illusion rooms are worth slowing down for. Here you are not posing against one wall, you are the subject of the whole room, so try both photos and short video clips and keep the one that works best.

Tickets and prices

Official prices, paid at the counter:

Two rules to know before you pay. Tickets are valid only on the day of issue, and they are non-refundable. There is no timed entry, so you can arrive whenever you like within opening hours.

Buying online

The official website does not sell tickets online. If you want the ticket on your phone before you arrive, resellers are the only route. Klook is the most common: even LIVE JAPAN, the railway and airline consortium’s tourism site, sends its Trick Art bookings to a Klook voucher. GetYourGuide also lists an Odaiba admission ticket.

Be realistic about the saving. The gate price is low, and the discounts we have seen on resellers are small, around ¥100 on the best offers. Booking online makes sense if you are already buying other Odaiba tickets on the same app, or you prefer to pay by card in your own currency. If you are only doing Trick Art, walking up to the counter is perfectly fine. Compare the price on the cards below with the ¥1,200 gate price and decide.

Klook or GetYourGuide?

Both sell a standard admission ticket for the same museum, so the choice comes down to price on your date, the cancellation line on the listing and which app you already use. The table below compares the current offers side by side.

Platform	Product	From	Rating	link
Klook	Tokyo Trick Art Museum Admission Ticket	$7.65lowest	★ 4.5 (124)	See ticket
GetYourGuide	Tokyo Trick Art Museum: Admission Ticket (Odaiba)	$15.06	—	See ticket

Our default is Klook: it has more reviews on this product, and you can keep all your Odaiba tickets in one app. GetYourGuide is worth a look if you want its cancellation terms or prefer paying in euros. Read the redemption line on either listing before you buy, because the museum’s own ticket is same-day only, and a reseller voucher may have its own validity rules.

Opening hours and when to go

The museum opens at 11:00. Closing time depends on the day: the official site showed 20:00 on one page and 21:00 on its English FAQ when we checked, with last entry one hour before close. Irregular closing days follow the museum’s calendar and DECKS closures, so check the official site before a late visit.

Timing tips:

• Weekday mornings are the calmest. The best illusions have one ideal camera spot, and a queue of families behind you makes it hard to take three attempts at the same shot.
• Rainy days fill every indoor attraction in DECKS. Trick Art handles crowds better than LEGOLAND because there are no time slots, but the popular walls get busy.
• Evenings work well if you want to finish the day with dinner in DECKS; restaurants there stay open until 23:00.

Photo tips

Trick art is built around a single viewpoint. Most bad photos happen because the camera is in the wrong place, not because the art is weak. A few habits help:

• Find the camera spot first. Stand where the illusion looks correct to your own eye before you raise the phone. If the perspective looks wrong in person, it will look wrong in the photo.
• Use the normal 1x lens. Ultra-wide lenses bend straight lines at the edges and break the illusion. Step back rather than zooming out.
• Match the camera height to the art. Many pieces look right from a crouch or from chest height. Try two heights before you give up on a wall.
• Let the subject act. The best shots have a real reaction: arms braced, face scared, body leaning. A stiff pose next to a monster looks like a person next to a painting.
• Work in pairs. This museum is much more fun with someone to take the photo. Solo visitors can manage with a timer, but you will spend most of your time walking back and forth.
• Try video in the whole-body rooms. Movement sometimes sells an effect better than a still.

Food and drink are not allowed inside, so finish snacks before you go in.

How long you need

This is a short visit compared with Joypolis or LEGOLAND. How long it takes depends almost entirely on how many photos you want. Families who pose at every wall stay much longer than couples who walk through and pick favourites. Treat it as a stop between two bigger attractions in DECKS, not as the main event of your day.

The Odaiba Tour Pass

The Trick Art Museum is one of nine venues in the Odaiba Tour Pass (お台場周遊チケット), organised by Tokyo Rinkai Holdings, the Yurikamome’s parent company. Klook sells it as the “Special Tour Pass in Odaiba”. The edition we checked was valid from 1 April to 30 September 2026. It is sold in seasonal editions, so check whether your dates are bookable.

If your dates are not bookable, buy single tickets or look at Klook Pass Greater Tokyo, which bundles several paid attractions. Our Odaiba pass guide explains when a pass pays off.

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Who will enjoy it, and who can skip it

Go if you are travelling with children, if you like taking silly photos with friends, or if it is raining and you are already in DECKS. At ¥1,200 it is one of the cheapest paid attractions in Odaiba.

Skip it if you are travelling alone and don’t enjoy being in photos, or if you already visited a trick art museum elsewhere in Japan. The format is the same, only the theme changes.

Nearby in DECKS

The Trick Art Museum is on the same floor as the Daiba 1-chome Shotengai, a Showa-retro shopping street, and the Daiba Haunted School. In the same building you also have Joypolis, LEGOLAND Discovery Center and Madame Tussauds. Our Odaiba malls guide shows which attraction is on which floor.