The arched roof of the building at Tatsumi, which opened in 1993 as the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center and has been an ice arena since 2025Photo: 江戸村のとくぞう · Source · CC BY-SA 4.0The empty main rink with its stands and arched roofPhoto: Tanaka Kikinzoku Ice Arena · Source
Tokyo's public ice arena, converted from the Tatsumi swimming centre in 2025
The arena began as the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center, completed in 1993 as a venue for national swimming championships and, at the 2020 Olympics, for water polo. Tokyo decided in 2019 to turn it into a permanent skating rink, began the conversion in 2023 and opened it as the Tokyo Tatsumi Ice Arena on 6 September 2025.
The main rink is 60 by 30 metres to international standard, with 3,600 fixed seats and 1,600 temporary ones, and the 47 by 17 metre sub rink has curling sheets. The main rink is used for figure skating, ice hockey, short track, curling and para ice hockey. Central Sports is its designated manager.
From 30 August 2026 it carries the name Tanaka Kikinzoku Ice Arena under a naming-rights deal of three years and seven months. A heated room is open on the main rink when it is open.
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Admission
A public session costs ¥1,200 for adults, ¥1,000 for high school students, ¥800 for elementary and junior high school students and ¥400 for pre-school children; books of six tickets cost ¥6,000, ¥5,000, ¥4,000 and ¥2,000. Disabled visitors skate free, with one companion, and spectators pay ¥400. Prices include tax.
Spectators who go in beyond the reception desk pay a ¥400 spectator fee and take a spectator pass; changing to skating means paying the skating fee, and the spectator fee is not refunded.
Skaters with a disability certificate who use para ice hockey sledges are included in the free admission, and the arena asks them normally to use the main rink during public sessions.