Inside teamLab Planets: The Artworks, Area by Area

teamLab Planets is a museum you walk through barefoot, in water up to your knees, rather than one you look at from the side. teamLab, the art collective behind it, describes it as “a museum where you walk through water”, where the artworks change with the presence of the people in them. The official site groups the works into five areas: Water, Garden, Athletics Forest, Open-Air, and Factory & Store. This page walks through them in order, using teamLab’s own descriptions; nothing here is a substitute for the official artwork pages at teamlab.art.

The route through the museum

You start at the lockers, where shoes, socks and tights come off and bags go in. From there you follow the route through the Water area, one work leading into the next. The Garden area and the Athletics Forest follow, and the Open-Air works and the shop sit around them. There are detour routes for anyone who wants to skip a work (tell staff), and no re-entry once you leave. One of the 10 latest reviews of the GetYourGuide entry ticket says the order was “a little tricky” to follow at first; staff point the way.

The works are not videos on a loop. teamLab says each one is “rendered in real time by a computer program”, reacting to the people in the room, so “previous visual states can never be replicated”.

The Water area

This is the part people mean when they say “teamLab Planets”. You walk through it barefoot.

Work	What happens
Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People – Infinity	Knee-deep water that stretches out “into infinity”. Koi swim around you and turn into flowers when they hit a person.
The Infinite Crystal Universe	A sculpture of points of light that extends “infinitely in all directions”. Visitors pick stars on their phones and “throw” them into the work.
Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers	A room of falling, blooming flowers. teamLab invites you to lie down and let your body float into the work.
Expanding Three-dimensional Existence in Transforming Space	A room packed with large spheres of light that change colour and tone as you push through them.
Body of Waves	A large soft sculpture on the floor that sinks under your feet and passes the force on to everyone else on it.
Waterfall of Ephemeral Crystals	A waterfall of light, based on an earlier teamLab work in the mountains of Shikoku.
Ephemeral Crystallized Light	Floating masses of coloured light that seem solid until you touch them.

The koi room is the one most photos come from. Its water is treated with sodium hypochlorite, like a pool, and anyone with an inseam under 40 cm must be carried through it. If you are wondering what to put on, read what to wear to teamLab Planets before you go.

The Garden area

Two works, and both are partly real. The Floating Flower Garden fills a room with a mass of living orchids that rise as you approach, opening a space around you. teamLab notes that most orchids can grow without soil, absorbing water from the air, and that the scent of the room changes through the day; many of the orchids are partnered with night insects, so the fragrance is strongest at night.

The Moss Garden of Resonating Microcosms is outdoors. Egg-shaped ovoids stand in a moss garden, reflecting the world in daylight and glowing on their own after sunset. Push one and it rights itself with a tone that spreads to the ovoids around it. It stays open in light rain but cannot be viewed in typhoon-level wind or heavy rain. If you want to see it lit, book a slot that has you there after sunset, which in Tokyo ranges from about 16:28 in December to 18:57 in June; the opening hours page has the table by month.

The Athletics Forest

A large area of play-based works, opened as part of a new section on 22 January 2025 (Wikipedia). teamLab lists works such as Catching and Collecting Extinct Forest, where you “catch” extinct animals on the walls with the teamLab app; Graffiti Nature and Sketch Umwelt World, where your drawings become part of the work; Multi Jumping Universe; Aerial Climbing through a Flock of Colored Birds; and Sliding through the Fruit Field. It is the part children head for, and it can stretch a visit; how long teamLab Planets takes has the timings.

The Open-Air works and the Factory & Store

The Open-Air area includes Universe of Fire Particles Haunting the Sky and Earth, Vortex Sea: Waves and Whirlpools, and Forest, Wind and Light Paintings – Dusk to Dawn. The Factory & Store area has the Sketch Factory, which turns creatures drawn in Graffiti Nature or Sketch Umwelt World into a badge, hand towel, T-shirt or tote bag, and the Living Art Store, which sells orchids that bloomed in the Floating Flower Garden.

What changes by season

Some works follow the year. In the koi room, teamLab says the flowers that bloom change with the seasons; Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers shows “a seasonal year of flowers”; and the orchids in the Floating Flower Garden are alive, growing and blooming day by day. The Moss Garden changes with the weather and with the time of day. teamLab also adds and expands works: in 2026 the official site highlights an expanded version of Existence in the Flow Creates Vortices.

Food inside

Three places to eat sit inside the ticketed area, open 10:30 to 21:30: Vegan Ramen UZU, from a Kyoto shop teamLab says has held a Michelin Bib Gourmand for five years running; Glass House, tea and sake in an artwork, closed to children 12 and under; and Emptiness Table. You can only reach them after entering the museum, and eating is not allowed in the artwork spaces.

Book your visit

An adult ticket starts at ¥3,800 (about $24) on the official Ticket Store, and tickets are not sold at the door. Compare the official ticket, the timed-entry ticket on GetYourGuide and the guided tours on our teamLab Planets tickets page. This is an independent guide; artwork names and descriptions are teamLab’s own.