Spanning across 10,000 square meters, teamLab Planets TOKYO offers a massive space consisting of immersive light installations. This allows the body to completely be submerged into the digital art, blurring the lines between viewer and the work allowing visitors to think about their relationship not only with the digital artwork but also with the world.

Compared to teamLab Borderless in Odaiba, Planets TOKYO has three main concepts that aim to echo our own: continuously moving, distinct colours and constant changes. Most, if not all of the installations try to show this. The Infinite Crystal Universe is an interactive installation of light sculpture just like pointilism, that uses dots of light and colour to create a picture. The work expresses the concept of the universe through changing light points that can infinitely spread in all directions. Here, visitors can also use their smartphones to select what type of “star” they want to release in the installation. This shows how each element influence each other much like our everyday lives.

Laid out in a dome-shaped area, Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers recreates a seasonal year of flowers in bloom that changes with time. Visitors can lie, sit down or stand up to immerse themselves in this artwork. In Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People - Infinity, the movement of the koi and flowers in the water is influenced by the presence of the people in the water. This highlights our relationship with nature and those around us and shows life continously moving and changing.

Another featured work is Expanding Three-dimensional Existence in Transforming Space - Free floating, 12 colors. Here, the space is filled with giant spheres that float in different lights. People move along and when they strike the sphere, it changes colour and influences the surrounding orbs. Once again, this shows one our movement and actions can affect our surroundings. This installation also shows the distinct colours as the colours of the spheres are not merely what we usually see. There are 9 other new colours including light in water, sunlight on water plants and plum – colours that we see everyday but cannot find words to describe. Other exhibited works include Waterfall of Light Particles at the Top of an Incline, Soft Black Hole and Cold Life. They also mimic the three main concepts that teamLab Planets TOKYO aims to show.
Note: teamLab is represented by Pace Gallery.

Getting there

Located in Toyosu, the nearest stations are Shin-Toyosu (Yurikamone Line) and Toyosu Station (Yurakuro Line).
By Jianne Soriano