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Universal Studios Japan · Asia · typical hours 9 AM–9 PM
The one-minute version: be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride The Flying Dinosaur first. Waits peak from late morning to mid-afternoon — do shows and meals then. The final hour is often as quiet as rope drop. There is no headline evening show, so the final operating hour is usually the quietest time to ride.
Usually worth it: USJ is one of the most crowded parks on Earth per square metre, and Express Pass is priced accordingly.
See today's live waits free Ready-made touring plans26 rides open, 4 closed · average posted wait 51 min, 18 min above typical.
| Attraction | Posted wait |
|---|---|
| Mine Cart Madness™ 90 above typical | 200 min |
| Hollywood Dream -The Ride - Backdrop- 15 above typical | 115 min |
| Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge™ 20 above typical | 100 min |
| The Flying Dinosaur 40 above typical | 85 min |
| Hollywood Dream - The Ride 10 below typical | 75 min |
| Yoshi's Adventure™ 10 above typical | 75 min |
| Flight of the Hippogriff™ 20 above typical | 70 min |
| Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™ 35 above typical | 65 min |
| JAWS™ 40 above typical | 50 min |
| Snoopy's Flying Ace Adventure 10 above typical | 45 min |
| Despicable Me Minion Mayhem 15 above typical | 40 min |
| Freeze Ray Sliders 15 above typical | 40 min |
| Hello Kitty's Ribbon Collection 25 above typical | 40 min |
| Sadako's Curse: Dark Horror Ride. 15 above typical | 40 min |
| The Flying Snoopy 10 above typical | 40 min |
| Jurassic Park – The Ride™ 25 above typical | 35 min |
| ファクトリー・オブ・フィアー ～絶望のゾンビ・ツアー～ 25 above typical | 35 min |
| Detective Conan: The World 20 above typical | 30 min |
| Playing with Curious George™ 20 above typical | 30 min |
| SING ON TOUR 15 above typical | 25 min |
| ジョーズ 10 above typical | 20 min |
| Illumination's Villain-con Minion Blast | 15 min |
| Ollivanders™ 5 above typical | 15 min |
| チェンソーマン・ザ・カオス 4-D 5 below typical | 15 min |
| Hello Kitty's Cupcake Dream 5 above typical | 10 min |
| 葬送のフリーレン×ストーリー・ライド ～鳥の魔物と馬車の旅～ 5 below typical | 5 min |
Closed right now: Jurassic Park - The Ride in the Dark, Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic™, Shrek’s 4-D Adventure™, Space Fantasy – The Ride.
Posted waits as of 2:56 PM park time, refreshed every few minutes. Posted waits are the park’s own figures via Queue-Times.com. Plan around them in the app →
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| Day | Park hours (local time) |
|---|---|
| Fri 23 Oct | 8 AM – 10 PM |
| Sat 24 Oct | 8 AM – 10 PM |
| Sun 25 Oct | 8:30 AM – 9:30 PM |
| Mon 26 Oct | 8 AM – 10 PM |
| Tue 27 Oct | 8 AM – 10 PM |
| Wed 28 Oct | 8 AM – 10 PM |
| Thu 29 Oct | 8 AM – 10 PM |
From the park’s published schedule. Hours change, and evening events can close the park to day guests early — check with the park before you go.
Queues here follow a predictable daily shape. Lines are shortest in the first hour and the last, and peak 12 PM–2 PM — that is the window to spend on shows, meals or indoor attractions rather than headliners.
Typical shape of a Universal Studios Japan day, shown as each hour's share of that day's own peak wait. Actual minutes vary by season and day of week — check today's live waits.
| Hour | Typical wait level |
|---|---|
| 9 AM | 40% of the day's peak |
| 10 AM | 65% of the day's peak |
| 11 AM | 88% of the day's peak |
| 12 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 1 PM | 100% of the day's peak |
| 2 PM | 95% of the day's peak |
| 3 PM | 90% of the day's peak |
| 4 PM | 85% of the day's peak |
| 5 PM | 75% of the day's peak |
| 6 PM | 62% of the day's peak |
| 7 PM | 48% of the day's peak |
| 8 PM | 35% of the day's peak |
Be at the gate 30–45 minutes before opening and ride in this order. Super Nintendo World runs on timed entry that can be gone by mid-morning, and The Flying Dinosaur builds the longest standby line in the park almost immediately.
The first hour is the cheapest capacity of the day — no pass, no fee, and typically the shortest waits you will see.
Red = busiest, green = quietest, grey = moderate.
Expect the year's longest waits during Golden Week at the end of April, Obon in mid-August, the enormous Halloween season, and the year-end holidays.
The best value for short lines is mid-January after the New Year rush, June weekdays in the rainy season, and September weekdays between the holidays.
Scores are the crowd forecast, 1 to 10, averaged over the stretch. *School holidays vary by district, state or zone; these are the typical dates, so check your own. Visiting in a busy stretch anyway? Be at the gate before opening, and ride the big ones in the first hour and the last. Every day is scored on the crowd calendar.
Included with admission
Included with admission: street zombies from 6 PM across most of the park, plus Halloween ride overlays. Some haunted attractions need a separate timed ticket.
This year: 11 September to 8 November.
Usually worth it
USJ is one of the most crowded parks on Earth per square metre, and Express Pass is priced accordingly. On peak days it is close to essential for the headliners; on quiet weekdays the free timed-entry systems plus rope drop cover most of it. Decide by the date, not by habit.
Price: roughly ¥7800–¥29800 per person · 4- or 7-ride tiers, price varies by date. Prices change often and by date — treat this as a range, not a quote.
Maben Parks shows every wait live with a "vs typical" marker, and your magical fairy will run the numbers for your party and date — including telling you to keep your money when the answer is no.
Check today's waits before you buyPlanning ahead? The free Universal Studios Japan crowd calendar scores every day for the next twelve months, 1 to 10 — no sign-up.
Median posted wait across the rides we track, on moderate days — the crowd level most visitors get. The shaded band is the middle half of readings at that hour.
Detected automatically from the live feed — each of these reported closed all day, every day, for at least three operating days. Observed through October 23, 2026.
| Attraction | Closed since | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic™ | August 26, 2026 | 59 operating days |
| Shrek’s 4-D Adventure™ | August 26, 2026 | 59 operating days |
| Space Fantasy – The Ride | August 26, 2026 | 59 operating days |
Generated from wait-feed observations, not an operator announcement: a long closure usually means refurbishment, but we report what the feed shows rather than guessing why. Always check the operator's own page before travelling for one specific ride.
Every wait we have recorded here, grouped by how busy the day turned out to be. The bold figure is the middle half of what we saw — a quarter of the time it was shorter, a quarter of the time longer. Read it against today’s crowd level to know whether the number on the sign is good or bad.
| Ride | Lightlevel 1 | Mildlevel 2 | Moderatelevel 3 | Busylevel 4 | Packedlevel 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mine Cart Madness™ | 10–13025 typical | 10–17010 typical | 10–17090 typical | 10–180100 typical | 10–190140 typical |
| Hollywood Dream -The Ride - Backdrop- | 10–6510 typical | 10–7510 typical | 10–9510 typical | 10–10075 typical | 45–120115 typical |
| Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge™ | 10–6020 typical | 10–9015 typical | 10–9540 typical | 55–11080 typical | 10–12070 typical |
| Hollywood Dream - The Ride | 10–4520 typical | 10–6010 typical | 10–8025 typical | 10–8055 typical | 40–110100 typical |
| The Flying Dinosaur | 10–3515 typical | 10–5015 typical | 10–6535 typical | 25–7045 typical | 10–10060 typical |
| Flight of the Hippogriff™ | 10–4015 typical | 10–5510 typical | 10–7035 typical | 40–6545 typical | 15–9560 typical |
| Yoshi's Adventure™ | 5–4010 typical | 5–5510 typical | 10–7040 typical | 30–8065 typical | 10–8555 typical |
| Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey™ | 10–2015 typical | 10–3515 typical | 10–5015 typical | 15–5030 typical | 15–7035 typical |
| Sadako's Curse: Dark Horror Ride. | 10–2015 typical | 15–3020 typical | 10–4020 typical | 15–4525 typical | 10–5530 typical |
| Despicable Me Minion Mayhem | 10–3015 typical | 10–4010 typical | 10–3515 typical | 20–3525 typical | 10–5035 typical |
| Snoopy's Flying Ace Adventure | 5–3510 typical | 5–3510 typical | 10–4525 typical | 15–4535 typical | 10–5035 typical |
| The Flying Snoopy | 10–2010 typical | 5–3010 typical | 10–3525 typical | 25–4030 typical | 10–4530 typical |
| Freeze Ray Sliders | 10–1510 typical | 10–2510 typical | 10–3515 typical | 10–4030 typical | 10–4030 typical |
| Hello Kitty's Ribbon Collection | 10–3015 typical | 10–3510 typical | 10–3510 typical | 0–3520 typical | 10–4025 typical |
| JAWS™ | 10–2010 typical | 10–2510 typical | 10–3010 typical | 10–4010 typical | 10–2525 typical |
| ジュラシック・パーク・ザ・ライド ～イン・ザ・ダーク～ | 5–2010 typical | 10–3010 typical | 10–2510 typical | 10–2010 typical | 10–4020 typical |
| Jurassic Park - The Ride in the Dark | 5–1010 typical | 10–2010 typical | 5–1010 typical | 10–4010 typical | 10–4010 typical |
| Jurassic Park – The Ride™ | 10–2010 typical | — | 10–3510 typical | 10–4010 typical | 10–4010 typical |
Minutes of posted standby wait, from our own recorded snapshots — up to 19 days per figure. Cells stay blank until a ride has enough observations at that crowd level to be worth printing. Posted waits are what the park displays, which is not always what you queue.
Aim to be at the gate 30–45 minutes before the posted opening time of 9 AM. The first hour consistently has the day's shortest waits, and arriving even 45 minutes late typically costs you two headliners.
9 AM–10 AM and 8 PM–9 PM — the opening hour and the final hour of the operating day. Waits peak 12 PM–2 PM, so plan meals, shows and indoor attractions for that window.
The Flying Dinosaur, then Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge and Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey. Super Nintendo World runs on timed entry that can be gone by mid-morning, and The Flying Dinosaur builds the longest standby line in the park almost immediately.
January, June and September — mid-January after the New Year rush, June weekdays in the rainy season, and September weekdays between the holidays. Avoid April, August, October and December, when Golden Week at the end of April, Obon in mid-August, the enormous Halloween season, and the year-end holidays.
USJ is one of the most crowded parks on Earth per square metre, and Express Pass is priced accordingly. On peak days it is close to essential for the headliners; on quiet weekdays the free timed-entry systems plus rope drop cover most of it. Decide by the date, not by habit.