A Magical Day in Tokyo | Harry Potter Studio Tour | 2025 Tokyo Vlog

A Magical Day in Tokyo | Harry Potter Studio Tour | 2025 Tokyo Vlog

Hi guys!! I’m Hiro!! Thank you for coming my video. Today, I’m heading to Toshimaen Station to check out that certain magic school in Tokyo. I didn’t come here for anything else but… the **Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo**! London’s is a bit too far for me to go. It’s only about a five-minute walk from Toshimaen Station to the Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo. As soon as you enter the grounds, you’re greeted by a big, beautifully manicured lawn. There are already Harry Potter stuffs set up in the plaza, so I’m already super hyped up! Right outside the entrance of the building, there are lockers where you can check your bags. They’re free to use for anyone with a ticket. I’ve met up with my friend for today, and since it’s our reserved time, let’s head inside the building now. First up: security check. Hungarian Horntail right off the bat!!! Just like they say, this tour looks massive. Kinda hungry, so I’m gonna grab some lunch before starting the tour. The huge, Great Hall-style Food Hall is right next to the lobby. Check out all those candles! Since the tour looks like a lot of walking, We’re gonna fuel up here first. Our food’s here! The food was just okay, to be honest. They had some dishes themed after the movies, so you should probably order those instead. Gochisousamadeshita!! Right next to the Food Hall there’s a Frod Cafe where you can get desserts and sweets inspired by the movies. Time to finally start the studio tour! In the first part of the tour, there’s a video that you can’t film, and they only let in a set number of people for each time slot. Everyone has to wait here in this holding area until their scheduled time. But hey, with all the posters and interviews with the directors from past films, waiting here isn’t bad at all. Of course, they’ve got J.K. Rowling’s too. It’s our entry time! After watching the two videos, the doors to the **Great Hall** finally appeared, and we went inside. It looks like the guy whose birthday it is today gets to represent everyone and open the doors to the **Great Hall**! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! Right now, it’s the Goblet of Fire event period, so the Great Hall is kept dim. At the front of the Great Hall, they’re recreating the selection ceremony for the champions from the film. After the reenactment, the Great Hall brightens up, and you get time to look around. The time you get in the Great Hall is pretty short, and you can’t go back in, so you gotta look at everything quickly. And with that, the time to explore at my own pace has finally begun! And when you think of Hogwarts, it has to be these moving staircases. There are a few photo booths here where you can take a short video, and that video gets displayed on the portrait frames, making you feel like you’re actually part of the movie. Next up is the area showcasing the common rooms and dormitories for each house. Seeing the details up close is so much fun because you can discover all sorts of little things. Next, we’ve got the **Quidditch Filming Experience** booth! You stand on the set, follow the staff’s instructions for a quick little bit of acting, and boom! You get to be an extra in a video as a student watching a Quidditch match. It was a little embarrassing, but it was a cool experience.
You can even buy the finished video footage, apparently. And of course, there were NIMBUS displays, too! This is Dumbledore’s study. It looks like they built the set so completely, even the tiny spots you won’t even see on screen are perfectly detailed. The Pensieve! Whose memory should I peek into? I thought it was a clock from a distance, but it’s actually a display of the wands the characters use. In this open area, they’re showing off costumes and props from Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts. Next up, we hit the Potions classroom exhibit. You can actually see the brewing in action right here! Looks like the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just started! You can still join in even if you haven’t bought a wand yet, but I bet it would be way more fun if you came after buying your favorite one. A Death Eater busts in halfway through, so we all have to team up and use spells to chase him away. Next up is the library. It’s so detailed, you can totally imagine Hermione in here reading a book! This is Tom Riddle’s grave, part of the Goblet of Fire event exhibit. Right behind the grave are Voldemort and Nagini! And check out the whole wall covered in super restrictive school rules! Next up is the Forbidden Forest! The attention to detail is awesome; it’s got that creepy, eerie vibe down perfectly. There’s Hagrid with Buckbeak, and you can see the car that smashed into the Whomping Willow on display! The scene where Harry conjures his Patronus is super famous, but they also have an activity here where you can try the Patronus Charm yourself! My Patronus is a bunny.lol This is the super-familiar set of Hagrid’s hut, all stone-walled and deep in that gloomy forest. Given how huge Hagrid is, the contrast with his cute little room is actually super heartwarming and relaxing! They’ve got the flying Ford Anglia here too, the same one from the Forbidden Forest! You can actually hop in and ride it here. Next up is the Dursleys’ set, where the whole story basically kicked off. They’ve even perfectly recreated Harry’s tiny room under the stairs! In the dining kitchen, they have the scenes where a ton of letters fly around and where Aunt Marge blows up like a balloon. The kitchen and the sink are totally stacked with prop food and dishes. It’s crazy how they detail everything, even the stuff you don’t really see. Right next to the Dursleys’ set is the Hogwarts Bridge set. Actually, this bridge never even appears in the original books or scripts! The director at the time apparently came up with it to crank up the sense of adventure. Out of everything in the Backlot area, the Hogwarts Bridge might actually be my personal favorite. Right next to the Hogwarts Bridge set, they’ve got that famous giant Chess Piece exhibit from The Sorcerer’s Stone! When you see them for real, they’re seriously huge.
I’d be freaking out if one of those chess pieces took a swing at me. And the very last exhibit in the Backlot area is the Knight Bus, which totally catches your eye with its purple color! You can’t actually get inside the Knight Bus, but you can check out the inside from the back area. There’s a Butterbeer Bar in the Backlot area, so you can grab a butterbeer and enjoy it right there! Butterbeer is super famous ’cause you can get it at USJ, but this is my first time trying it! Man, it’s pretty sweet, huh? The Butterbeer itself is 1,200 yen, which I thought was kind of pricey, but you can rinse the glass at the washing station and take it home as a souvenir! Right next to the Butterbeer Bar is the Backlot Cafe, which is a place to eat. I didn’t go in this time, but it’s like, the perfect halfway point, so I think it’s a good spot to take a break. Alright, let’s keep this tour rolling! The first area of the second half is Platform 9 3/4,
where the Hogwarts Express is whistling away. Let’s hop inside the **Hogwarts Express**! As you walk down the hall, there are a bunch of compartments, and each one has mannequins and props recreating memorable scenes from different Harry Potter movies inside. The Railway Shop right on Platform 9 3/4 is where they’re selling all the merch. They’ve got a massive lineup here, including stuff related to Platform 9 3/4 and the Hogwarts Express, plus Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, wands, and everything in between. Alright, time to move on to the next area. They’ve got a whole wall here covered in tons of different set pieces, and it looks epic! You can totally feel the craftsmanship and detail put into every single thing. At the Studio Tour Tokyo, you can step into one of the fireplaces just like the Ministry of Magic employees, and they use smoke and lighting to make it look like you’re covered in Floo powder. Alright, I’m gonna give it a shot too! Now I’m a Ministry of Magic employee! The full-scale set of the Ministry of Magic is absolutely stunning, and you can only see it here in Tokyo. In this area, they showcase a huge variety of creatures from the movies, including animatronics, prosthetics, and other special three-dimensional models. And there’s Dobby the house-elf too. These days, a lot of the creatures are created digitally, and there’s a video exhibit featuring Eddie Redmayne that explains the whole process. It’s incredible to see how many different steps it takes to create creatures that look like they’re actually there. Sound is totally essential for any movie. This room is all about the sound work, showing off everything from dialogue and sound effects to the musical score. They show you videos and things to explain how the sounds are layered and built up until they reach the final version. It really shows just how crucial a role music plays in a movie. Next up is Diagon Alley, a shopping street lined with all sorts of colorful and quirky shops. You can get right up close to those famous shops and see all the details. Inside the alley set, the lighting gradually shifts from bright to dark and back again, cleverly recreating the feeling of a whole day passing. The wall is completely covered with product designs for things like the Marauder’s Map, the Daily Prophet, and Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans. Every single design is so incredibly detailed, you could spend forever just looking at all the little elements. Now that we’ve reached the final stretch of the tour, we’ve arrived at the room featuring that massive Hogwarts Castle model. And with this model, the way the lighting shifts perfectly recreates the entire day’s view of Hogwarts, from the moment the sun rises until it’s deep into the night. They’re currently running a special event during the “Goblet of Fire” period where they use projection mapping to show the scene where Harry battles the Hungarian Horntail dragon. The way Hogwarts’ appearance changes from moment to moment, just with the lighting, is absolutely gorgeous. Even just the texture of the bricks is incredibly detailed and well-executed! As someone who loves models, I could really spend ages just enjoying this. They actually used about 2,500 fiber-optic cables inside the model just to represent the torches and lamps for the lighting. The final room is here. The names of over 4,000 cast and crew members who worked on the films are printed on wand boxes, making it truly feel like you’re watching the end credits of the entire tour. It’s really cool to scan the names covering the whole wall and try to spot your favorite cast or crew members! Once you pass through the tour exit—and remember, re-entry is prohibited—you step right into the massive Main Shop. This Main Shop is located near the entrance, so you can come here to buy things before you start the Studio Tour or after you’ve finished enjoying it. Just so you know, you actually need a Studio Tour ticket to get into this shop, so you can’t just come here to buy merchandise without doing the tour. This is one of the largest shops in the world, and it’s absolutely packed with merchandise. It really feels like there’s nothing related to the series that they don’t sell here Every single section is incredibly well-designed and detailed, making the shop a ton of fun to just walk around and look at, even if you’re not buying anything. Of course, they also have tons of merchandise for all four houses, so you definitely need to check out the gear for your favorite house. Just so you know, the tour took about four hours, and it was pretty empty today, which was awesome. During a long weekend or on a really busy day, you’d be waiting in line for everything and lining up to take photos, so it would probably take way longer. I could only snag a ticket for the 3 p.m. entry that day, but the price is the same, so if you can book an earlier slot, you’ll be able to take your sweet time going through the tour. Of course, it’s a must-see for fans of the series, but you can also learn a ton about moviemaking, so I’d highly recommend it to people interested in that stuff, too. If you’re planning a trip to this tour, I think it’s a great idea to watch the series again before you go! Thanks for watching the video all the way to the end! See you in the next vedeo!!

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0:00 Toshimaen Station
1:18 Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo
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4:00 Start the studio tour

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