Our 304th entry in our digital diary is our first time visit to Tokyo’s TeamLab Planets. We are joined by Ate Rei’s classmates and friends. 🙂

teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM.com is an art museum that utilizes digital technology and was established by teamLab and DMM.com. It is located in 6-chome, Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo. We are confused at first as we entered a wide room full of lights and mirrors. It’s like a mirror maze.

“DMM.Planets Art by teamLab” was first held in Odaiba in 2016 and then scaled up and opened in Shin-Toyosu. It comprises 4 large-scale artwork spaces and 2 gardens created by art collective teamLab.

By immersing the entire body with other people in these massive “Body Immersive” artworks, the boundary between the body and the artwork dissolves, the boundaries between the self, others, and the world become something continuous, and we explore a new relationship without boundaries between ourselves and the world. – wikipedia.org

Customers enter the museum barefoot to experience some of the artworks, as there are areas in which the customer will enter water.

At the time of opening, the original exhibition period was until autumn 2020, but has since been extended several times. First until the end of 2022, again until the end of 2023, and then, due to the continued popularity of the exhibition, a further extension until the end of 2027.

With lots of expansions, some areas were newly established or renamed, and teamLab Planets was renovated into a museum composed of four areas: “Water”, “Garden”, “Forest”, and “Open-Air”.

In 2023, teamLab Planets was recognized as “Asia’s Leading Tourist Attraction 2023” at the World Travel Awards, which honors outstanding services and tourist destinations in the travel industry. It was the first time a Japanese attraction was recognized as the leading destination in Asia.

Furthermore, from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024, teamLab Planets welcomed 2,504,264 visitors, earning it a Guinness World Record as the most visited museum by a single art group in the world. – wikipedia.org

Additionally, in Google’s annual search ranking “Year in Search 2023”, it ranked 5th among the “World’s Most Popular Museums”. On December 15, 2023, it was ranked 1st in the “Inbound Popular Tourist Destination Ranking Nationwide” announced by Hounichi Lab.

On January 22, 2025, teamLab Planets expanded its site by 1.5 times, opening a large new area called “Forest”. This area consists of the creative movement space “Athletic Forest”, an educational project for co-creation called “Future Park”, and “Catching and Collecting Forest”, featuring over 20 new artworks.

In the third year since its opening, the “Garden” was added on July 2, 2021 with the addition of two large garden works.

The first of which being a garden filled with countless orchids blooming in the air, that rise and fall as the viewer approaches. They are hanged from a sensor that when you go near or under the orchid, the plant goes up making a way for you to pass. It’s amazing! 🙂

These are real orchids and are not allowed to be touched since they are really delicate.

The second of the two new exhibitions is a moss garden with brilliant egg-shaped sculptures whose appearance changes based on the time of day.

And that is our afternoon adventure at TeamLab Planets. There is also another TeamLab here in Tokyo, the Borderless. We also hoped to visit it someday. 🙂