A theater is one of the permanent locations where AKB48 or a sister group perform almost everyday. Each of the current 48 groups has its own theater at a separate location. Performances at the theater are almost always a set of songs called a stage, which can be original or a revival of a previous stage. The teams in a group often perform separate stages simultaneously. There are currently four theaters in various regions of Japan, and two outside of Japan. Staff member Kayano Shinobu is the general manager of all the theaters.
AKB48 Theater
AKB48 Theater Entrance
- Location: Don Quijote Store, Akihabara
- City: Tokyo
- Capacity: 250 people
- Debut performance: December 8, 2005
- Stage manager: Yuasa Hiroshi
- Website: AKB48 Official Website
SKE48 Theater
SKE48 Theater Entrance
- Location: Sunshine Sakae Building, Sakae
- City: Nagoya
- Capacity: 299 people
- Debut performance: October 5, 2008
- Stage manager: Shiba Tomoya
- Website: SKE48 Official Website
NMB48 Theater
NMB48 Theater Entrance
- Location: Yes-Namba Building, Namba
- City: Osaka
- Capacity: 233 people
- Debut performance: January 1, 2011
- Stage manager: Kaneko Takeshi
- Website: NMB48 Official Website
HKT48 Theater
HKT48 Theater Entrance
- Location: Nishitetsu Hall, Hakata
- City: Fukuoka
- Capacity: 286
- Debut performance: April 28, 2016
- Stage manager: Ozaki Mitsuru, Sashihara Rino
- Website: HKT48 Official Website
NGT48 Theater
NGT48 Theater Entrance
- Location: Lovela 2, Niigata
- City: Niigata
- Capacity: 295
- Debut performance: January 10, 2016
- Stage manager: Imamura Etsuro
- Website: NGT48 Offical Website
STU48 Theater
- Location: Boat
- City: Yamaguchi, Hiroshima, Okayama, Hyogo, Tokushima, Kagawa and Ehime prefectures
- Capacity: TBA
- Debut performance: TBA
- Stage manager: TBA
- Website: TBA
JKT48 Theater
JKT48 Jakarta Theater Entrance
- Jakarta Main Theater
- Location: fX Sudirman Mall, South Jakarta
- City: Jakarta
- Capacity: 210 people
- Debut performance: September 8, 2012
- Website: JKT48 Official Website
- Surabaya Theater
JKT48 Surabaya Theater Entrance
- Location: Taman Budaya Genteng Cak Durasim, East Java
- City: Surabaya
- Capacity:???
- Debut Performance: July 17, 2016
- Website: JKT48 Surabaya Theater Official Website
BNK48 Theater
BNK48 The Campus Logo
BNK48 Theater Entrance
- Location: The Mall Bangkapi , Bangkapi
- City: Bangkok
- Capacity: 350 people
- Debut performance: April 26, 2018
- Website: BNK48 Official Website
SNH48 Theater
SNH48 Theater Entrance
- Location: Star Dream Theater, Hongkou
- City: Shanghai
- Capacity: 340 people
- Debut performance: August 30, 2013
- Stage manager: Fan Yibai
- Website: SNH48 Official Website
BEJ48 Theater
BNK48 Theater Interior
- Location: Chaoyang U-Town Shopping Center
- City: Beijing
- Capacity: N/A
- Debut performance: April 29, 2016
- Stage manager:
- Website:
GNZ48 Theater
GNZ48 Theater and Village entrance
- Location: Tianhe Center Plaza
- City: Guangzhou
- Capacity: N/A
- Debut performance: April 29, 2016
- Stage manager:
- Website:
CKG48 Theater
CKG48 Theater entrance
- Location: Chongqing Guorui Center
- City: Chongqing
- Capacity: N/A
- Debut performance: TBA
- Stage manager:
- Website:
Trivia
- The location of the theaters are used in the group names. For example, the full name of AKB48 is Akihabara48. The Tokyo district of Akihabara is the location of the AKB48 theater.
- The JKT48 theater is the first theater to be created for an international sister group of AKB48.
- Currently, the 48 group theater with the largest capacity is the SNH48 Star Dream Theater.
- The NMB48 theater is the only 48 group theater that is located underground. The location was formerly a comedy theater known as base YOSHIMOTO.
- Among the sister groups of AKB48, only SDN48 did not have their own theater. They performed in the AKB48 Theater from 2009 to 2012.
Former Theater
HKT48 Theater Entrance
HKT48 Theater (HKT48劇場), is where HKT48 held their Theater Performances almost everyday. The HKT48 Theater is in Hakata, Fukuoka, which is the place that HKT48 is named after. The HKT48 Theater is the only 48 theater that has a permanent walkway built in. Hakata, Fukuoka Capacity - 300