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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 15 arcades
Best arcades in Munich
The 10 most notable arcades in Munich, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
MAGIC Spielhalle
Neumarkter Str. 66
585 m from München-Berg am Laim station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.295, percentile 100 of 15
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2
MAGIC Spielhalle
Grünwalder Weg 20c
656 m from Taufkirchen station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.295, percentile 92.86 of 15
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3
Löwen Play
Westendstr. 193-195
156 m from Westendstraße, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.990, percentile 85.71 of 15
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4
MERKUR
Sonnenstr. 6
186 m from München Karlsplatz station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.893, percentile 78.57 of 15
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5
Magic SPIELHALLE
Feringastr. 14
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.90 · rank score 1.809, percentile 71.43 of 15
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6
MERKUR
Lotte-Branz-Str. 14
440 m from München-Freimann station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.781, percentile 64.29 of 15
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7
Löwen Play
Ingolstädter Str. 22
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.761, percentile 57.14 of 15
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8
Löwen Play
Landsberger Str. 428
214 m from gare de marchandises de Munich-Pasing, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.761, percentile 50 of 15
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9
Löwen Play
Kistlerhofstr. 168
342 m from Machtlfinger Straße, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.761, percentile 42.86 of 15
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10
Löwen Play
Landsberger Str. 287b
259 m from Munich-Laim, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.761, percentile 35.71 of 15
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).