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CHUNITHM is a SEGA arcade game, and it is one of the few rhythm games you play largely with your hands in the air. You stand at a wide cabinet, notes come down the screen towards you, and you play them on a touch strip that runs along the front — tapping it, holding it, sliding your hands left and right. A row of sensors sits above the strip, so a good part of the song is played by lifting a hand off it and waving in the air, touching nothing at all.
It has been in arcades since 2015 and there has never been a home version. No console release, no PC release. If you want to play it, you go to it.
Twelve arcades in Singapore have a cabinet, as of August 2026. That is a much shorter list than the one for maimai, SEGA’s other big rhythm machine, which is in more than thirty.
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Where to find CHUNITHM
- Virtualand (Bugis+) — Bugis
- Paco FunWorld (Bugis+) — Bugis
- Timezone Orchard Xchange — Orchard
- Cow Play Cow Moo (Suntec City) — Marina Centre
- FunTan (KINEX) — Paya Lebar
- Paco FunWorld (i12 Katong) — Katong
- Paco FunWorld (iMall) — Marine Parade
- Paco at Kallang Wave Mall — Kallang
- Cow Play Cow Moo (Downtown East) — Pasir Ris
- Virtualand (NEX) — Serangoon
- Cow Play Cow Moo (Northshore Plaza II) — Punggol
- Timezone Westgate — Jurong East
Bugis+ is the only mall with two of them, on separate floors, so it is the one place you have a fallback in the same building. Paco has a cabinet at all four of its outlets, which no other chain here manages. Timezone has two out of more than twenty branches, so your local one almost certainly does not have one. And there is exactly one west of the city.
Closing times run from 10pm to 1am depending on where you go, and each listing above carries the current hours.
The version you are playing
Outside Japan the game runs as a separate build, and the machine you stand at here is the international one. It has its own song list, so a song you have watched someone play in a Japanese video is not guaranteed to be on the cabinet in front of you, and SEGA drops some songs when a version changes.
The current release is CHUNITHM X-VERSE-X, out since April 2026. SEGA has been shipping a new version roughly every six months — VERSE, then X-VERSE, then this one — with songs and events landing every couple of weeks in between.
The note SEGA puts on every launch is the one to remember: the date can differ by country, by area and by store. Two arcades on the list above will not necessarily move to a new version in the same week. If you are making the trip for a particular new song, ask at the counter what they are running before you pay.
Your card, your rating, and the site behind both
Your scores, your unlocks and your characters live on a SEGA Aime card rather than on the machine, and the arcade sells them over the counter. A first play on a new card comes with the tutorial and a free song, so buy the card before you spend anything else. When a new version arrives, the card carries all of it over — scores, ranks, clear marks, friends list and all.
The number players actually talk about is your rating, worked out from your best scores rather than from a single good run, which is why regulars keep grinding songs they have already cleared. The same profile is readable away from the arcade on CHUNITHM-NET, the site the card gives you access to, and that is also where the friends list and the team you join live.
If you already play Taiko no Tatsujin you are carrying a Bandai Namco passport rather than an Aime, and the two use the same card standard. Hand the staff what you have and ask, rather than buying a second one on the assumption that you need it.
The tournament you can enter from here
SEGA runs an official competition for the game, KING of Performai, and the qualifying round is not limited to Japan. It is open at stores in every region with a machine, which means all twelve above.
It works from the cabinet. You enter through CHUNITHM-NET, then play the set tournament course as often as you like inside the entry window, and your total goes onto a leaderboard showing the top fifty. The top two are invited to the finals in Japan. The seventh edition ran its qualifying round through November 2025, and the next one is announced on CHUNITHM-NET.
Machines move and arcades change hands. Confirm before a long trip, and if something on one of our listings is out of date, there’s a form at the bottom of every one.
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Opening hours, prices and details change. Please check with the venue before travelling — and if something here is out of date, the report form on any listing takes about twenty seconds.
