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Although they probably wouldn’t thank me for saying this, teamLab Planets has always been a bit overshadowed by the bigger, flashier, and currently newer teamLab Borderless. But that might be about to change, as in 2025, teamLab Planets had a makeover – and it’s now nearly as popular as Borderless.
Three new areas were added to the teamLab Planets site in Tokyo’s Toyosu area, increasing its size by 1.5 times, and over 10 new exhibits were added.
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These have an educational bent, but don’t worry—they won’t ask you to do maths.
Here’s what you can expect to see
Athletics Forest
‘Spatial awareness is said to be correlated with innovation and creativity. I grew up in a rural area and played in the mountains, but in today’s society and schools, the body is stationary. I think cities are surrounded too much by flat information, such as books, TV, and smartphone screens. That is why we created a three-dimensional space that excessively demands the physical body. It is a space where people can perceive art with their physical bodies.” – teamLab Founder, Toshiyuki Inoko
In this area, you’ll move around in this space to play with the artworks — jumping, climbing, and sliding. Kids will love it!
If you’ve been to teamLab Planets in the past, you’ll know that you do most of the attraction barefoot after wading through some water – that bit hasn’t disappeared, but once you come into the new area, you will put your shoes back on to do these more active exhibits.
You can expect to find six movement-led interactive experiences in this area, including…
Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Spheres in the Caterpillar House
teamLab, 2020 -, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab
Rapidly Rotating Bouncing Sphere is a space made up of spheres that people can jump on. The spheres rotate at high speed, but when people approach them, they stop rotating and become easier to step on.
This already appears in the teamLab Borderless in Jeddah, where the picture above was taken.
Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds
teamLab, 2018-, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab
Aerial Climbing is a space where horizontal bars of varying colors are suspended by ropes and float three-dimensionally in the air. People use these bars to navigate the space in mid-air through three dimensions, trying not to fall.
Balance Stepping Stones in the Invisible World
teamLab, 2020-, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab
Balance Stepping Stones are stepping stones that interactively change when a person steps on them, emitting a color and tone that affect the space. When a person steps on a stone, it wobbles in various ways.
The Athletic Forest will also feature two new art installations: Autonomous Abstraction, and Existence in the Flow Creates Vortices. You don’t need to interact physically with these – you can just admire them!
Catching and Collecting Forest
Catching and Collecting Forest is a learning space based on the concept of Catch, Study, Release. Visitors explore with their smartphones, capture various creatures, study them, and create their very own collection book. But rather than the animals you’re used to seeing, the Catching and Collecting Forest at teamLab Planets is a forest of extinction. It is a forest of extinct animals.
This sounds similar to the teamLab installation at the Galaxy Store in Harajuku. Like that you will use your cellphone and a special teamLab app to take part in the exhibit.
Future Park
This is where you get to release your inner teamLab-orian (is that a word?) and create and play with art. Two of the five interactive exhibits in this area include…
Sketch Umwelt World
teamLab, 2025, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: teamLab
Color in an airplane, butterfly, or hawk on the paper provided and see the picture you have drawn appear three-dimensionally, flying through the world in front of you. If you touch them, they speed up or fly away.
A Table where Little People Live
teamLab, 2013 -, Interactive Digital Installation
This is a table where little people live. If you put something, such as your hand, on top of the table, the little people will jump onto it. Depending on the shape of the objects you place on the table, the little people will slide, jump, or climb.
You’ll also find exhibits called A Musical Wall where Little People Live and A Window to the Universe where Little People Live, which also see you interact with the art and have the ‘little people’ react.
They all sound very adorable, but the small w’s on where in the titles of this section are upsetting my little inner grammar nerd a lot!
Make Your Own Souvenirs
Finally, another new idea, Sketch Factory, will let you make cute products like T-shirts, bags, and towels containing the drawings you create here.
Are The Old Areas Still There?
Yes, the existing four areas of teamLab Planets, including the artworks in the water area and the gardens, are staying, so you can still experience these.
The pretty ramen restaurant outside, which sells vegan ramen and which is worth a look for the interior alone, will also still be there if you’re here around lunchtime.
Buy Tickets Here
The new teamLab Planets areas opened January 22nd, 2025, and tickets are on sale now.
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NB: All pictures in this article are from teamLab’s press release about the new teamLab Planets areas, not directly taken in the new Tokyo exhibit. Copyright remains with teamLab.
