Located in Toyosu, Tokyo, teamLab Planets is an immersive art museum where visitors engage with light, sound, and motion in a fully sensory experience. In 2024, it earned a Guinness World Record as the most visited museum dedicated to a single artist or group, proving its global popularity. The museum underwent a major expansion in 2025, adding new installations that deepen its appeal. This article explores what makes this expansion so special, and why now is the perfect time to visit! 

teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM.com, Toyosu, Tokyo © teamLab

What Is teamLab Planets?

teamLab Planets is an art museum by renowned art collective teamLab, located in Toyosu, Tokyo. The museum features a series of striking, interactive installations that blend physical elements with dynamic art. These artworks respond to the presence and movement of visitors, creating a deeply personal and constantly evolving experience. This otherworldly fusion of art and technology has made teamLab Planets one of Tokyo’s top attractions for international visitors.

teamLab Planets is a standout favourite thanks to its multi-sensory installations that invite visitors to become part of the artwork. Guests wade barefoot through water teeming with digital carp, navigate obstacle courses, unwind in moving gardens, and engage with virtual environments. Some even connect to your smartphone, allowing you to influence the artwork in real time. It’s an experience that dissolves the boundaries between art, technology, and the human body.

January 2025, teamLab Planets added over 20 brand-new works with the opening of its new “Forest” area and more. Whether it’s your first visit or a return trip, now’s the perfect time to dive in! Read on to discover more about this exciting expansion!

teamLab, Floating Flower Garden: Flowers and I are of the Same Root, the Garden and I are One © teamLab

New Area #1: Catching and Collecting Forest

One of these new areas is Catching and Collecting Forest, where visitors can explore a beautiful digital forest filled with playful animals that react naturally to your movements. As you wander, you can use a dedicated app to “catch” these animals, learn about them, and create your own collection book. This makes for a fun, rewarding, and educational experience.

teamLab, Catching and Collecting Extinct Forest © teamLab

You can even team up with friends, family, or nearby visitors to herd animals together into a net. The more of one type you catch, the more you’ll learn about it. And once you’re done exploring, you can release the animals back into their digital home. All the animals are extinct species, giving you a surreal sense of stepping back in time to when they roamed freely. You’ll have a blast searching, chasing, and feeling like a field researcher on a grand adventure. 

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New Area #2: Athletics Forest

For those ready to get moving, the new Athletics Forest is a full-body experience. Designed to promote “three-dimensional thinking,” the space challenges guests to jump, climb, balance, and dodge to build spatial awareness that supports creativity and innovation as an antidote to our screen-heavy, sedentary lives. With 12 unique zones, there’s plenty to discover. Here are three of our favourites:

・Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Coloured Birds

This room features horizontal bars suspended by ropes, beckoning you to climb and challenge your balance and agility. Because the bars are connected, your movements are influenced by others navigating the course, creating an unpredictable test for both body and mind. Each bar lights up and plays a unique tone when stepped on, combining into a melody as multiple climbers move through the space. Meanwhile, a flock of glowing digital birds flies around, creating a stunning blend of light, sound, and movement.

teamLab, Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds © teamLab

・Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres in the Caterpillar House

This dazzling room is filled with multi-coloured balls for you to jump around and channel your inner child. The balls appear to spin rapidly, creating an exhilarating kaleidoscope of motion, but they slow down as you approach, making the space alive and responsive. Bouncing on balls of the same colour rewards you with the satisfying “pop” of the spheres and the appearance of digital crawling caterpillars, letting you feel your impact shape the environment.

teamLab, Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres in the Caterpillar House © teamLab

・Balance Stepping Stones in the Invisible World

This challenging room is perfect for kids to practice balancing and for adults to reconnect with their gymnastics skills. The dark, moody hall features a course of stepping stones in various shapes and sizes. Each stone wobbles when stepped on, emitting a tone and colour that enhance the atmosphere, adding that signature teamLab touch.

teamLab, Balance Stepping Stones in the Invisible World © teamLab

New Area #3: Learn & Play! Future Park 

Future Park is designed for children to boost education, creativity, and teamwork. Its interactive displays encourage free and collaborative creation that builds ever-evolving artwork. There are four installations in total, and here are two of our favourites:

・Sketch Umwelt World

Flex your artistic muscles by colouring in a picture of an airplane, dolphin, hawk, or butterfly. Then, scan your drawing and bring it to life in the energetic digital world that fills the room. You can also use your smartphone to see from its point of view and control it yourself, turning it into a fun game. Each creature offers a different experience, like a 360-degree vertical view for the butterfly or the sharp eyesight of a hawk.

teamLab, Sketch Umwelt World © teamLab

・A Musical Wall Where Little People Live

This room features a wall home to a lively village of tiny residents, which you can interact with by placing real objects on the wall. Each object affects the villagers, making them jump, slide, and respond. The physics are accurately reflected, creating a true sense of connection. Music is also made as seeds rain down and hit the objects, producing different sounds.

teamLab, A Musical Wall where Little People Live © teamLab

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How to Make the Most of teamLab Planets

Here are some tips to help you make the most of your visit.

・Charge Up Your Phone

teamLab Planets is incredibly photogenic, so you’ll be taking lots of photos and videos. Make sure your phone is fully charged before you go. If you’re worried about battery life, bring a portable charger to keep you powered throughout the day.

・Store Your Suitcases and Prams

Suitcases, bags, and prams are not allowed inside the museum. Free lockers are available to store your luggage, which measure 23 cm wide, 34 cm deep, and 37 cm high. For prams, there is a designated parking area where you can secure them with a wire key.

・Ensure Ample Time

To fully enjoy teamLab Planets, plan to spend 2.5 to 3 hours. This allows time to take photos, explore the exhibits, and relax. You’ll also be able to shop and have lunch.

・Wear the Right Clothes

teamLab Planets requires visitors to enjoy the exhibits barefoot in the water section. For the smoothest experience, wear shoes that slip on and off quickly, along with shorts or pants that roll up and dry fast. Some areas have mirrored floors. For those who feel uncomfortable wearing skirts or dresses in such settings, complimentary rental shorts are available from the staff. For kids, a change of clothes might be needed. Clean towels are provided at the water area exit. Some participatory artworks cannot be experienced while wearing sandals without heel support or high-heeled footwear. However, it is still possible to enter these areas to observe. Complimentary rental shoes are available for those who wish to actively take part.

・Save Your Appetite For Vegan Ramen

Inside the museum, Vegan Ramen UZU serves Michelin-recognized, plant-based vegan ramen made with premium ingredients like Hokkaido kombu and Japanese shiitake mushrooms. Vegan and vegetarian options can be rare in Japan, so this is a must-try. You’ll also find vegan ice cream, muffins, and other treats. Dine outdoors on the sculptural One Stroke Bench, or opt for the indoor Emptiness Table, where you can enjoy your meal surrounded by teamLab art. Here you’ll also find Glass House, a sleek bar serving tea, sake, and more.

© Vegan Ramen UZU

・Browse Sketch Factory For Souvenirs

Save space in your luggage for custom souvenirs from Sketch Factory, made from your own drawings at installations like Sketch Umwelt World. Turn your creations into t-shirts, badges, towels, tote bags, and more for a unique memory to take home.

teamLab, Sketch Factory © teamLab

How to Get to teamLab Planets

teamLab Planets boasts fantastic accessibility, making it easy to include on even the tightest Tokyo itineraries. It’s just a 1-minute walk from Shin-Toyosu Station on the Yurikamome Line, which can be reached directly from Shinbashi Station in about 30 minutes. Shinbashi Station is connected to major stations like Tokyo and Shinjuku on JR lines, so access by train is a breeze.

Alternatively, there is a dedicated shuttle bus that runs between GINZA SIX in Ginza and teamLab Planets. Tickets cost a small fee and are best booked in advance online.
Ginza Shuttle Bus One-Way Ticket

・Purchase Tickets Beforehand

Tickets for teamLab Planets must be bought online in advance, as they are not sold at the venue. teamLab Planets is open from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm, with last admission one hour before closing. You can select your desired date and timeslot when booking.

・English Assistance at teamLab Planets

Don’t worry if you don’t speak Japanese! teamLab Planets is traveller-friendly with an English website, apps, signage, and online ticket sales. Many staff members speak English, so feel free to ask if you have any questions.

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The Perfect Blend of Art, Nature, and Adventure

With its recent expansion, teamLab Planets offers an even richer blend of art, interactive fun, and immersive nature, all easily accessible in Tokyo. This one-of-a-kind experience is a must-add to any Japan itinerary, even for a short visit.

teamLab, Exhibition view of teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM.com, 2018, Toyosu, Tokyo ©︎ teamLab, courtesy Gallery

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