The 2011 Tohoku earthquake tsunami occurred resulting a complex waveform which had never been observed before where slowly and small wave initiated by the first impulsive tsunami wave and increases gradually. Then the water surface elevation rose dramatically and quickly reached its maximum level and was followed by a wave train with high constant height with quite long periods. From this evidence, the paradigm of solitary wave-based tsunami wave representation was categorized as outdated for physical modeling. Therefore, to reproduce the 2011 Tohoku earthquake-like tsunami including a steep wave with very long period or current, a new mechanism of tsunami generation in physical modeling is needed. In this study, we conducted the performance test of a cutting-edge tsunami wave generator, which is equipped with three types of wave generation mechanisms: mechanical piston-type wave generation, head storage tank-driven wave generation, and pump-driven wave generation.