teamLab Planets: A Journey Through Art and Technology

The experience is divided into several immersive worlds — Water, Garden, Forest, and Open-Air — where the installations respond to the presence of visitors. The boundaries between space, light, sound, and the body gradually become difficult to distinguish. Visitors are invited to walk through water and move within the artworks, which transform as they explore.

One of the area’s highlights is Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres in the Caterpillar House, where visitors are immersed in a colorful, physical environment. Other works, such as Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds and Balance Stepping Stones in the Invisible World, take the idea even further, turning the entire body into a means of experiencing art.

In Catching and Collecting Extinct Forest, your smartphone becomes a tool for exploration. Using the teamLab app, visitors can target digital animals in the space, capture them, and add them to a virtual collection. Once they have been studied, the creatures can then be released back into the digital environment.

The experience transforms technology into a tool for discovery. In a playful way, it also highlights the fragility of ecosystems and the disappearance of species.

The space is designed as a place for co-creation. Rather than simply observing a pre-programmed digital world, visitors help create it.

It is an experience particularly well suited to families, but its concept goes far beyond a children’s workshop: everyone contributes a small piece of their imagination to a world that evolves alongside the other visitors.

Thousands of points of light create a dazzling space that visitors can walk through. The artwork is never static: it changes in response to visitors and can also be influenced through the teamLab app.

The result feels like stepping into a wall-less galaxy where perspectives seem to stretch into infinity. The installation perfectly embodies the collective’s philosophy: an artwork may be digital, but it truly comes alive when it interacts with the people moving through it.

Visitors enter a dark space filled with remarkably soft surfaces. Every movement alters the environment, while the weight and movements of other visitors also influence the space.

You walk, lose your balance, catch yourself — and quickly realize that your own body is part of the artwork. The installation explores the way we influence one another as we move through a shared space.

One of the most surprising details for first-time visitors is that teamLab Planets is largely experienced barefoot!

This is far from incidental. It reflects the collective’s desire to remove as much distance as possible between visitors and the artwork. You don’t experience the exhibition with your eyes alone: you walk, feel different textures beneath your feet, find your balance, and watch the light change around you.

Toyosu Market, one of Tokyo’s major food hubs, is just a few minutes away on foot. Visitors can watch the famous tuna auctions, enjoy lunch at one of the many sushi restaurants nearby, or browse the shops at Uogashi Yokocho, where you’ll find food products and culinary souvenirs.

Before leaving, don’t miss the market’s rooftop, which offers a lovely view over Tokyo Bay.

To make the most of the atmosphere, however, it is best to visit in the morning, as many of the shops and restaurants close in the early afternoon.