teamLab Planets Tokyo is a long-term pop-up exhibition by world-renowned Japanese digital art collective teamLab.
Much of the exhibition is centred around water. Visitors are asked to roll up their pants and wade knee-deep in a few of the artworks. These include a walk up a long, dark ramp toward a waterfall. There’s also a large pool to wade through with koi carp materialising around you on the surface of the water.
Another attraction is a version of teamLab’s famous ‘Crystal Universe’ which immerses you in a room filled with colour-changing crystals. Thanks to some deft mirrors in all directions the crystals seem to go on forever.
In another room you lie on the floor of a planetarium-like domed space while huge flowers seem to fly around you.
One of the most fun installations is a large room with a deep bean-bag floor that visitors have to struggle across to reach the next exhibit.
If all the activity makes you hungry, the venue has a nice casual dining restaurant called ‘The Bowl Steakhouse’ and a snack food kiosk located outside the exhibition entrance.
Book your timed tickets online in advance via the teamLab Planets Tokyo website.
Address: Toyosu 6-1-16, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Getting there: 1 minute walk from Shin-Toyosu Station(Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line and Yurikamome Line)
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