Henri Leroux

Tokyo · experience

teamLab Planets TOKYO: digital art museum entry

A barefoot, full-body digital art museum on the Toyosu waterfront — a knee-deep water room of drifting koi, a mirrored orchid garden, and light that shifts with the people inside it.

Open 09:00–22:00 — most visits take 1.5 to 2 hoursEntry ticket, any group sizeFrom €23

The experience

A full-body digital art museum in Toyosu, where the work responds to whoever is standing in it.

teamLab Planets is not a gallery of framed work but four large-scale installations guests walk, wade and climb through barefoot, spread across more than 10,000 square metres on the Toyosu waterfront — trousers that roll up past the knee are the one practical preparation worth making.

The best-known room floods ankle-to-knee-deep water with drifting projected koi that scatter at a footstep; elsewhere, a mirrored infinity room of hanging orchids and a garden that shifts through a slow annual cycle of light complete the sequence. Each installation reacts, in some way, to the people inside it, so no two visits look quite the same.

It is a direct-entry, self-guided ticket — there is no guide and no fixed route — so the museum is best treated as an unhurried couple of hours rather than a single quick stop between other plans.

Duration

Open 09:00–22:00 — most visits take 1.5 to 2 hours

Group

Entry ticket, any group size

Languages

Confirmed with the option

Format

Self-guided, barefoot walk through the installation

Meeting point

Confirmed with the option

Pickup and drop-off

Not included — direct entry at the museum for the booked timeslot.

Who this suits

A good choice when it matches the way you want to use the city.

  • Travellers who want one genuinely contemporary, photograph-worthy Tokyo experience.
  • Couples and families alike — the water rooms are a particular favourite with children.
  • Anyone comfortable going barefoot through parts of the museum.

Itinerary

The route at a glance.

The guide and exact sequence are confirmed on the day. Times below are a useful indication of how this visit is normally structured.

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    Direct entry

    Enter at teamLab Planets, Toyosu, and move through the installations at your own pace.

    At your booked timeslot

What the visit includes

The practical detail before you choose a date.

Highlights

  • A knee-deep water installation with drifting, responsive projected koi
  • A mirrored infinity room filled with hanging orchids
  • Over 10,000 square metres of immersive, full-body art
  • A garden installation that shifts through a slow cycle of light

Included

  • ✓ Timed entrance ticket to teamLab Planets TOKYO

Not included

  • • Locker use for bags too large to carry in (small lockers provided)
  • • Transport to and from Toyosu

Before you go

A few essentials for the day.

  • Guests walk barefoot through several rooms; water can reach knee height, so wear trousers that roll up.
  • Not recommended for guests with epilepsy, heart conditions, or those who use wheelchairs — some areas are not wheelchair accessible.
  • Same-day tickets are not sold; book ahead, and note entry is only possible within 30 minutes of the selected time.