teamLab Planets Tokyo
teamLab Planets Tokyo is a body-immersive museum in the Toyosu district of Tokyo, offering visitors a physical, full five-sensory experience, including water attractions.
- Waterfall of Light Particles
- Soft Black Hole
- Infinite Crystal Universe
- Expanding 3D Existence in Transforming Space
- Dance of Koi and People - Infinity
- Cold Life
- Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers
- Dos and Don'ts
- Tickets
- Hours
- Access
- Nearby
- Tokyo Museums
teamLab Planets Tokyo
teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
teamLab Planets in the Toyosu district of Tokyo is literally a place to get your feet wet. This multi-story entertainment complex showcases the body-immersive artistry of teamLab. And parts of it are quite literally immersive!
teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
teamLab is a Tokyo-based art collective of artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects, all cooperating to provide body-artistic experiences. And teamLab Planets is just one of several venues in Japan and overseas showcasing teamLab's art. This body-immersive museum opened in July 2018 and is scheduled to run until fall of 2020.
teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
teamLab Planets features seven huge art works—each comprising a separate space—that the visitor only fully appreciates by becoming an active part of.
On entering teamLab Planets, you place your shoes, valuables, and unneeded sundries in a secure locker. If necessary, you can also change into loose pants provided free of charge by teamLab Planets. These are for visitors whose pants are too tight to roll up, or who are wearing clothing inappropriate for shin-deep wading or for the attraction that features a mirrored floor.
teamLab Planets is a fun, otherworldly, experience. Lighting is kept to a minimum in order to accentuate a sense of inner space, which is what your hour or so here will be all about
Climb every stream: Waterfall of Light Particles
teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
Ever climbed a waterfall? That's how the teamLab Planets journey begins: ankle deep in a gentle cascade as you climb your way into a new dimension.
Awaiting at the top, and reflected in the incline during your ascent, is the first artwork: the Waterfall of Light Particles. Mystical in its concept, and inspiring in its simplicity, the bright white Waterfall welcomes you to a new dimension of enhanced sensory awareness.
Forging your own path: the Soft Black Hole
Soft Black Hole, teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
After drying your feet with a complimentary towel, pad barefoot along a gently lit passage to the Soft Black Hole. Black holes are all about gravity, and you will feel the full force of it here! This large space has a very soft, lumpy floor evoking a time long before the advent of pavements, and when getting from A to B wasn't so easy. It is a floor and couch in one that you can strenuously wade through or lazily flop into. Enjoy the physical sensation of forging your own path!
Become the center: Infinite Crystal Universe
Infinite Crystal Universe, teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
The Infinite Crystal Universe is a thrillingly disorientating space of shimmering, changing light that seems to extend forever in every direction. Great densely layered curtains of LEDs are reflected in the all-mirrored walls, floor and ceiling. Weave your way through and come out in the main space that acts as a stage for the visitors, who are actors in this vast starry drama.
Smartphone app controlling the Infinite Crystal Universe, teamLab Planets Tokyo
To get the most out of this mind-expanding illusion, you should download the teamLab smartphone app before your visit. Then, as you "float" through this spangled dimension, you can control how the light flows through it in your particular vicinity. With a swipe of your finger, patterns of light, of your choosing, pulse away from you - into the infinite.
Infinite Crystal Universe, teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
Music of the spheres: Expanding Three-Dimensional Existence in Transforming Space
3D Existence in Transforming Space, teamLab Planets Tokyo
Huge, lightweight spheres that respond to your touch while you get thoroughly lost among them. This larger-than-life-sized globular attraction is simple but sophisticated. Countless translucent spheres of huge dimensions lazily bob and bounce all around you.
3D Existence in Transforming Space, teamLab Planets Tokyo
As you make your way through them, you push them out of the way: outwards or upwards. But, touch them, and they change color. The new hue spreads to the others, transforming the look and mood of the space moment by moment. Don't worry about getting lost here: it's all part of the experience. It's just you, the great mysterious spheres, and the morphing colored paths you negotiate with them.
Knee-deep in illusion: Dance of Koi and People - Infinity
Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People - Infinity, teamLab Planets Tokyo
You got your feet wet on entering teamLab Planets. Here the water level rises almost to knee level. Roll up your pants and wade into the comfortably body-temperature waters of "Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People - Infinity." This mouthful is the title of a work that features what first appear to be multi-colored koi carps swimming around your feet. Starting with a lazy glide, the pace quickens, and soon they are darting by, singly or in small schools. Charmingly, they transform, leaving a trail of multi-hued flowers in the ripples.
Cold Life
Cold Life, teamLab Planets Tokyo
Installed amid the Dance of Koi and People lake is the booth-sized 3D "spatial calligraphy" artwork called Cold Life. It is based on the Japanese kanji character for "life." This three-dimensional artwork mesmerizes with its mysteriously morphing "life" character. It goes through an approximately seven-minute cycle of fluid, dreamlike motion, making beautiful art of the concept of life, birth and rebirth.
Be assured that the water in the "Dance of Koi and People - Infinity" is constantly replenished with fresh water, and is adjusted to a very comfortable temperature, in keeping with the season.
Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers - a floral planetarium
Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers, teamLab Planets Tokyo
A massive floral pleasure dome that you lie under is the final attraction. Imagine that the night sky - or, in the case, a planetarium - featured the floral instead of the astral. Huge, colorful flowers, along with leaves, glide and sweep 180 degrees across the hemisphere that stretches above you.
Chill, lying on your back, and be charmed and dazzled by the multifarious play of budding, blooming and falling flowers happening right above and all around you. Like everything at teamLab Planets, there is a sense of story in how the spectacle develops, climaxes and transforms into the next.
teamLab Planets at evening, Toyosu, Tokyo
Tips, and Dos & Don'ts
Wear loose pants that can be rolled up above your knees. A skirt is best avoided, as the Infinite Crystal Universe has mirrored floors.
No footwear. Visitors go barefoot throughout.
Photography is allowed for private use only at teamLab Planets, but no selfie-sticks, monopods, tripods or use of flash.
Leave as many carried items as possible in one of the free lockers near the entrance.
No consumption of food or drink; no smoking. No admission to inebriated would-be guests or ticket holders.
Free locker room, teamLab Planets at evening, Toyosu, Tokyo
Tickets
After several postponements, unfortunately it seems like the museum won’t be delaying its closure beyond this year. However, as a concrete date has yet to be announced, one can still hope. The closing date is scheduled by end of 2022.
Accessibility
teamLab Planets is wheelchair accessible, but the user must use a facility-provided wheelchair.
teamLab Planets, Toyosu, Tokyo
Access
See where teamLab Planets is located with this Google Map of the Toyosu district.
There are several other attractions in Toyosu.
teamLab Planets Tokyo, Toyosu 6-1-16, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0061
Nearest Station
The nearest station to teamLab Planets Tokyo is Shin-Toyosu Station on the Yurikamome Line.
Quick Train Guide to teamLab Planets
The following are the most convenient routes to teamLab Planets from Shinjuku, Akihabara, Tokyo and Shibuya stations.
From Shinjuku Station
The easiest route from Shinjuku Station is:
Saikyo Line from Shinjuku to Kokusai-Tenjijo Station (26 minutes)
Walk about 6 minutes to Ariake Station, and take the Yurikamome Line to Shin-Toyosu Station (5 minutes)
From Akihabara Station
The easiest route from Akihabara Station is:
Yamanote Line from Akihabara to Shimbashi Station (8 minutes)
Change to the Yurikamome Line and go to Shin-Toyosu Station (29 minutes)
From Tokyo Station
The easiest route from Tokyo Station is:
Walk about 6 minutes to the nearby Yurakucho Station and take the Yurakucho Line to Toyosu Station (8 minutes)
Walk about 13 minutes (1 km) to teamLab Planets.
From Shibuya Station
The easiest route from Shibuya Station is:
Saikyo Line from Shibuya to Kokusai-Tenjijo Station (20 minutes)
Walk about 6 minutes to Ariake Station, and take the Yurikamome Line to Shin-Toyosu Station.
teamLab Planets at evening, Toyosu, Tokyo
Nearby
There is a small food court right in front of teamLab Planets.
Toyosu Market is Tokyo's biggest wholesale food market, and relocated here from Tsukiji in 2018. See a Toyosu guide for more nearby attractions.
teamLab Borderless is another, quite different, teamLab museum, in Tokyo's Odaiba district.
