Tokyo Mystery Circus (Tokyo, Japan)
Time limit: 10 minutes
Age limit: None
Player limit: 1-3
Difficulty: Medium
Date visited: January 2025
Our busy afternoon at Tokyo Mystery Circus, a SCRAP building full of escape games (though only a handful playable in English) located in Shinjuku’s Kabuchiko district, kicked off with Escape from the Prison, a sweet little 10-minute escape room. And I’m glad to report that it turned out to be exactly what I had hoped it would be: a short, fun, and lighthearted adventure packed with puzzle goodness!
The game has three identical cells that can fit teams of 1-3 people (even though some parts of the website say a maximum of 2). With E shopping around Tokyo, the boys and I entered as a team of 3 death row inmates given a 10-minute window to escape while a guard wandered the hallway.
Because we are idiots, the hardest part of the game for us was actually the basic hunt and seek at the very beginning, but we soon hit our stride and escaped from our cell in just a little over 7 minutes and 30 seconds, the first and only team to do so out of our batch of teams. I think it’s at just the right level of difficulty — not too hard but still a challenge for most regular players.
I actually think Escape from the Prison was, pound for pound, the best game we played at Tokyo Mystery Circus that day, and I definitely wouldn’t mind it if SCRAP expands on the idea to create a larger, more complex prison escape for English-speaking players.
Escape time: 7 minutes and 30 seconds
Verdict: A fun, cheeky little room that can briefly satisfy your escape thirst!
Rating: 8.73
Player | Theming | Atmosphere | Puzzles | Creativity | Fun | Average |
H | 8 | 8 | 8.5 | 9 | 9 | 8.5 |
Z | 9 | 8 | 8.5 | 9.5 | 9 | 8.8 |
J | 9 | 8 | 9 | 9.5 | 9 | 8.9 |
Rating | 8.73 |
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