teamLab isn’t your typical art collective. Founded in Tokyo in 2001, it’s a group of artists, engineers, programmers, architects, and designers working together to push the boundaries of what art can be. Instead of just hanging on walls, their works spill across entire rooms, wrapping around in moving projections of light, colour, and sound, resulting in a blend of art, science, and nature that you walk into, touch, and experience.
Japan is home to several teamLab locations, each built around a different concept. Some are immersive playgrounds where you wade through water or wander through mirrored infinity rooms. Others are outdoor experiences where real landscapes like forests and gardens are transformed into interactive nightscapes. The variety makes Japan the best place to experience the full range of teamLab’s work. Visiting one teamLab site gives you a taste of their vision, but each location is unique, with different exhibits and themes. So, let’s break down every teamLab experience in the country with details on what makes each stand out.
teamLab Planets Tokyo DMM (Toyosu, Tokyo)
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At teamLab Planets in Toyosu, visitors trade shoes for bare feet and step directly into the art. Unlike other museums, this one is all about body immersion. Visitors wade through shallow pools where koi projections scatter at their approach, cross mirrored floors that reflect infinite light, and walk into rooms where orchids rise and fall to create space for them. The museum is designed so that your body becomes part of the artwork itself.
Key highlights include the Floating Flower Garden, where thousands of live orchids hang from the ceiling and shift in response to human movement, and Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People, where koi projections swirl around visitors’ legs before bursting into flowers. Another standout, Expanding Three-Dimensional Existence in Transforming Space, uses mirrored walls and glowing spheres to create the illusion of walking through a living organism. Planets often books out weeks in advance, especially during cherry blossom and autumn seasons. Evening slots are the most popular since the lighting is especially dramatic at night. It is also worth knowing that teamLab lists Planets as running only until the end of 2027, so unlike the other Tokyo site it has a closing date on the horizon.
teamLab Borderless (Tokyo Azabudai Hills)
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If Planets is about surrendering to immersion, teamLab Borderless is about exploration. This is the most famous teamLab site worldwide and reopened in Tokyo’s Azabudai Hills in 2024 after the original Odaiba location closed in 2022.
Borderless is exactly what the name suggests: a space without boundaries. The artworks migrate between rooms, blending together in a way that ensures no two visits are the same. Visitors are encouraged to wander without a set path, following the flow of the art as it shifts around them.
The most photographed area is Bubble Universe, a room of spheres made purely of light. Stand still and the nearest sphere brightens, then passes that brightness on to the spheres around it. Another major draw is Microcosmoses, where countless lights move through the space and each one takes its glow from the lights around it. Families tend to head for the Future Park area, teamLab’s collaborative creative space for children. Visitors also flock to the Universe of Water Particles on a Rock Where People Gather, where a digital waterfall cascades down massive walls and disperses at the touch.
Borderless can easily take half a day to explore, and while it is worth the time, it can also be crowded. For the best experience, weekdays right after opening are ideal for avoiding long waits in the most popular spaces.
teamLab Future Park (Okinawa)
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Future Park is teamLab’s most family-oriented experience, designed for kids to create and interact with art directly. teamLab Future Park Okinawa is a permanent venue, open since 15 December 2023 on the third floor of T GALLERIA OKINAWA in Naha, right next to Omoromachi Station on the Yui Rail and 19 minutes from Naha Airport. The travelling Future Park exhibitions that pop up in shopping malls and event halls elsewhere in Japan and in Osaka are a separate thing.
The focus here is participatory learning, blending creativity with technology in a way that appeals to children and parents alike. In the Sketch Aquarium kids draw sea creatures on paper, scan them, and then watch as their creations swim across a massive projected aquarium. Graffiti Nature invites visitors to design animals and plants that become part of a constantly evolving digital ecosystem. Hopscotch for Geniuses uses floor projections to create a game that reacts to steps, encouraging both play and problem-solving.
While not as visually overwhelming as the larger permanent sites, Future Park has a special appeal for families, giving children a chance to see their own creativity come to life in real time.
teamLab Forest (Fukuoka, Kyushu)
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The concept of teamLab Forest is to “explore and immerse,” and this Fukuoka site delivers exactly that. Opened in 2020, it combines two zones: a museum space filled with evolving digital environments and an athletics space designed for physical play. Unlike Tokyo’s Planets or Borderless, which focus more on sensory wonder, this location encourages both the mind and body to stay active.
The museum area features Graffiti Nature in a Beating Valley, a digital ecosystem where the creatures and plants visitors draw are scanned in and then live, feed and die across the valley, changing with the season. This constant change means no two visits look alike. The Catching and Collecting Forest brings a game-like element into play, letting visitors use a teamLab smartphone app to capture and catalogue digital animals that roam across the walls and floors. It blurs the line between a naturalist’s field notebook and an arcade game. The Athletics Forest takes things even further, with trampolines, climbing nets, and balance-based installations that respond to movement with light and sound. This combination of art and athletics makes the Fukuoka site especially appealing for families, giving children space to burn energy while still engaging with art in a hands-on way. The site is on the fifth floor of BOSS E・ZO FUKUOKA in Jigyohama, Chuo Ward, next to MIZUHO PayPay Dome. Admission is ¥2,400 for 16 and over, ¥2,000 for high school and university students and ¥1,000 for children aged 4 to 15, and it opens 11:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and 10:00 to 19:00 at weekends and on holidays.
teamLab Ruins and Heritage: Rinkan Spa & Tea Ceremony (Takeo, Saga)
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Ruins and Heritage is the most unusual of the permanent sites, and the only one where the visit can end in a bath. It opened on 10 November 2021 inside Mifuneyama Rakuen, a garden in Takeo, Saga Prefecture, and it places digital works among the ruins of an old bath house and inside a cave carved with Buddhist figures roughly 1,300 years ago.
The works include Megaliths in the Bath House Ruins and Continuous Existence in the Bath House Ruins, both set in the crumbling stonework, Universe of Fire Particles in a Decaying Underground Passage, which fills a disused tunnel with drifting light, and Forest and Spiral of Resonating Lamps: One Stroke, where lamps pass colour between each other as people move among them. Light Sculpture of Flames and Ruptured Outer Wall and Stone Garden complete the route.
Entry to the art alone is ¥700 for 13 and over, ¥400 for children aged 6 to 12 and free for under sixes, and the exhibition runs 11:00 to 22:00 with last entry at 21:30. The combined ticket that adds the daytime bath is ¥4,400 for 16 and over. Mifuneyama Rakuen is at 4100 Takeo, Takeo-cho, about five minutes by taxi or eight minutes by bus from JR Takeo Onsen Station, which is roughly 70 minutes by train from Hakata.
teamLab Botanical Garden (Osaka)
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Osaka’s Botanical teamLab site takes place outdoors inside the Nagai Botanical Garden and is built entirely around the idea of “digitized nature”. The installations only operate at night, transforming the park’s natural setting into a glowing, interactive wonderland. Unlike indoor museums, the artwork here interacts directly with weather conditions, plants, and even animals that pass through, making the experience inseparable from the living environment.
One of the most striking exhibits is Resonating Microcosms in the Common Camellia Garden, where dozens of ovoid sculptures stand among the plants. These egg-shaped forms glow in different colours when touched and emit soft sounds, creating a field that feels alive and responsive. Another piece, Floating Resonating Lamps on Oike Lake, sets glowing lamps drifting on the water, each one changing colour and tone as it is touched or as the wind pushes it into its neighbours. The Forest of Autonomous Resonating Life turns the garden’s trees into luminous sentinels, pulsing with colour and reacting to movement and sound.
Because the Botanical Garden is open-air, the atmosphere changes with the season: winter nights can feel eerie and surreal, while summer evenings carry the warmth of crickets and humid air. This site is especially popular with couples, who come for its romantic, atmospheric quality, and with travellers looking for a teamLab experience that connects directly to nature.
teamLab: Field of Wind, Rain and Sun (Higashiosaka, Osaka)
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Osaka has a second teamLab site, opened two years after the Botanical Garden. Field of Wind, Rain and Sun opened on 5 October 2024 on the grounds of a former can factory in Higashiosaka, where a demolished section of the plant has been turned over to grassland. The whole piece is built around weather, so wind, rain and sunlight decide what the field looks like on the day you turn up.
Alongside the title work, the field holds Spatial Calligraphy of Light and Wind, Ephemeral Crystallized Rain, Enso of the Sun, Sea of the Sun, Sea of Light on the Pedestal, Life is an Ephemeral Light Born in the Sea of Darkness and Copper Fossils, which keeps a trace of the factory that stood here. Tea in Spontaneous Order brings the same idea to a cup in the cafe on the site.
The address is 1-1-15 Wakaehigashi-machi, Higashiosaka, about a 12 minute walk from Wakae-Iwata Station on the Kintetsu line or three minutes by taxi. It runs in two sessions, 11:30 to 17:30 with last entry at 16:30 and 19:30 to 21:20 with last entry at 20:40, and it closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Parking is limited to four cars, so take the train.
teamLab Biovortex Kyoto (Minami-ku, Kyoto)
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teamLab Biovortex Kyoto opened on 7 October 2025 and is teamLab’s largest permanent museum in Japan. It sits at 21-5 Higashikujo Higashi-Iwamotocho in Minami-ku, a 7 minute walk from the Hachijo East Gate of Kyoto Station, or 11 minutes on foot from Shichijo Station on the Keihan Line. Unlike the other sites, which focus on immersion, play, or nature, this one takes on a more philosophical theme centred on perception, existence, and what teamLab calls the “biocosmos.”
The museum holds more than 50 artworks across over 10,000 square metres. They include the Massless Amorphous Sculpture, a constantly changing form that defies physical boundaries, and Massless Suns and Dark Suns, which place visitors inside a universe of orbiting celestial objects that challenge the way we perceive light and void. Another work, Morphing Continuum, is a digital sculpture that never repeats the same shape twice, a meditation on time and impermanence.
Admission is ¥3,800 for adults, ¥2,800 for ages 13 to 17, ¥1,800 for ages 4 to 12 and free for under fours, and the museum opens 9:00 to 21:00 with last entry at 19:30. Biovortex has quickly become one of Kyoto’s busiest attractions, alongside its temples and gardens, so advance reservations are essential, especially during autumn foliage season.
Practical Tips
Reserve Your Visit
teamLab’s most popular sites, Planets in Tokyo and Borderless at Azabudai Hills, regularly sell out, especially on weekends, holidays, and during cherry blossom or autumn foliage seasons. Reservations open with timed entry slots, so booking two to four weeks ahead is wise.
Early-morning slots are the least crowded, while evening visits offer the most dramatic lighting. At Borderless, weekday morning tickets are your best bet.
Planets grew to one and a half times its size in January 2025, adding the Athletics Forest, the Catching and Collecting Extinct Forest and a Future Park area, and demand has grown with it.
What to Wear
Because many installations involve water, climbing, or outdoor paths, clothing choices can make or break your visit:
Planets (Tokyo): Visitors remove their shoes and socks and wade through shallow pools. Wear shorts or trousers that roll up easily and avoid tights. If you prefer skirts or dresses, pack appropriate undergarments since mirrored floors can cause exposure. The museum supplies wrap-around garments and towels. Footwear should be easy to slip off; skip foot-covering tights or compression stockings.
Borderless (Tokyo): Comfortable walking shoes are a must; the labyrinth of rooms can occupy you for three hours or more. The floors feature mirrors, so avoid short skirts or dresses if you’re concerned about reflections.
Forest (Fukuoka): High heels, sandals, or clogs are not permitted in many areas, and the Athletics Forest requires active clothing suitable for trampolines, nets, and balance challenges.
Botanical Garden (Osaka): This night-time outdoor installation runs along dark, uneven paths. The official advice is to wear comfortable shoes and opt for long sleeves and long trousers; insect repellent is recommended during summer. The weather changes with the season, humid summers call for lightweight clothes and bug spray, while winter evenings can be chilly, so layer up.
Future Park (Okinawa): Designed for children, it isn’t as physically demanding but still benefits from comfortable clothing that allows movement.
Getting There and Accessibility
Most teamLab sites are conveniently near major train stations:
- Planets Tokyo is a short walk from Shin-Toyosu Station.
- Borderless Tokyo sits within the Azabudai Hills complex near Roppongi; the 2024 relaunch relocated the attraction from Odaiba to this new site.
- Future Park Okinawa is on the third floor of T GALLERIA OKINAWA in Naha, next to Omoromachi Station on the Yui Rail.
- teamLab Forest Fukuoka is accessible via a brief ride from Hakata Station.
- Osaka’s Botanical Garden sits inside Nagai Park, easily reached from central Osaka.
- Field of Wind, Rain and Sun is a 12 minute walk from Wakae-Iwata Station on the Kintetsu line in Higashiosaka.
- Ruins and Heritage is inside Mifuneyama Rakuen in Takeo, Saga, five minutes by taxi from JR Takeo Onsen Station.
- teamLab Biovortex Kyoto is a 7 minute walk from the Hachijo East Gate of Kyoto Station, or 11 minutes from Shichijo Station on the Keihan Line.
Accessibility is generally good, though Planets’ water sections and Fukuoka’s Athletics Forest may not be suitable for wheelchairs or very young children. The outdoor environment at Osaka’s Botanical Garden includes rough terrain that may challenge anyone with mobility issues.
Photos and Devices
Handheld photography is welcome at all teamLab locations, but tripods and selfie sticks are not allowed. Because visitors often take dozens of videos and photos and may use teamLab’s official app (required for collecting digital animals in Fukuoka), bring a portable charger to keep your phone powered. Social-media favourites include the Floating Flower Garden at Planets, Bubble Universe at Borderless, and the glowing ovoid sculptures at Osaka’s Botanical Garden.
Pick the Right Experience
The diversity of teamLab’s installations means there’s something for every traveller:
Planets and Osaka’s Botanical Garden deliver romantic, immersive experiences perfect for couples. Planets’ new larger footprint includes an “Athletics Forest” for some physical play.
Forest (Fukuoka) and Future Park emphasise physical interaction and creativity, making them ideal for families. Fukuoka’s Athletics Forest introduces trampolines, climbing nets, and digital animal-collecting via smartphone.
Borderless rewards art lovers and anyone who wants to explore at their own pace; its artworks migrate between rooms, creating a truly “borderless” experience.
teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, open since October 2025, is the most contemplative of the sites, with exhibits exploring perception, existence, and the “biocosmos”.
Ruins and Heritage in Takeo and Field of Wind, Rain and Sun in Higashiosaka suit travellers who want something quieter: one ends in a bath, the other changes with the weather.
Overall, teamLab has transformed the idea of what an art space can be, and Japan offers the most complete range of its experiences. No matter which site you choose, teamLab makes you part of the artwork itself, blending technology, nature, and imagination into an experience that lingers long after you leave.
