Atami hoteliers thought Godzilla’s attack would end in spring, but the King of the Monsters makes his own schedule.
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Nine rooms of puzzles and a countdown to disaster to get your team’s minds working and pulses racing.
I’m slightly claustrophobic. So you might wonder why I would volunteer to have myself locked into a small room with a bunch of strangers. The truth is that I can’t resist a puzzle.
This is an escape room, an immersive puzzle-solving experience that will test your lateral thinking skills and problem-solving, and for the first time in Japan, it’s being offered in English and Chinese.





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