TeamLab Planets

I am back! Only a few days later!! So this post will mostly just be photo heavy, but I’ll try and include any anecdotes I remember as well.

At the end of August last year, Shyam and I finally made it to TeamLab Planets. We had already done Borderless before it closed down in Odaiba (the new one has since opened, but I’m not sure how different it is and if it’s worth going to). Planets is based not far from Odaiba and has a very exciting water theme. You have to take off your socks and shoes and roll your trousers basically up to your knees.

So I just realised I never actually blogged about TeamLab Borderless. What?? So I better just say that TeamLab is a pair of digital art museums in Tokyo (they have other pop-ups, possibly permanent exhibitions in other places too): Borderless and Planets. I won’t go into what they are too much, it’s easy to find out about them online. But they are incredibly popular with residents and tourists alike. Both places are a fully immersive experience.

This post is about Planets. I’m not sure why I neglected to blog about Borderless, but Planets was my favorite, so ehh.

So when you first go in, you take your shoes and socks off and put them in a locker by the entrance. Then you head inside and immediately walk up a wet, fairly steep slope. It felt like going into a swimming pool. I don’t actually remember the details well other than that (it has been over a year ^^; ). But there were several distinct sections with various digital art displays. So I’ll just share some photos.

There was an outside garden area with these mysterious silver orbs. We had to put on slippers to go out here.

And, I think this was the last area, the artificial flowers that moved up and down and were super cool and made a great photos spot.

It’s too long ago and I don’t remember what part I deemed as my favorite. I just know I found the whole thing very exciting but also relaxing. 100% worth a visit if you are in Tokyo. And that’s another catch up blog done. Relatively short compared to the last one, lol.