A Photo Guide To TeamLab Borderless: Is This Tokyo Attraction Worth Visiting In 2026?

Digital art museums appear to be gaining worldwide momentum in the form of events like the interactive Van Gogh exhibitions around Europe – but TeamLab have been at the forefront of digital art galleries for years, and Borderless was one place I really wanted to visit in Tokyo.

TeamLab Borderless moved to a brand new location in 2024, having closed down its original location in 2022. That meant I no longer knew what to expect from the rooms. The photos all over Instagram of the floating lantern room wouldn’t be recreated on my camera, and it only opened a month before we visited, so there were no up-to-date guides.

TeamLab have two art museums in Tokyo: Borderless and Planets. I think I was always set on Borderless – Planets is apparently much smaller and takes around 1-2 hours to walk around, but it’s also more immersive in the fact you have to take off your shoes and walk through water and become part of the exhibits. To be honest I feel like that’s a recipe for disaster for me and I’m sure I would have face-planted something in the museum, and also the rooms in Borderless appealed to me more.

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Borderless is still interactive, and every room felt more immersive than you thought it would be. Each room is ever-changing, and looks totally different every time you walk in, and artworks seep into other rooms regularly (hence “borderless”). This is why they recommend 2-4 hours, because you could go into every room several times. For what it’s worth, we spent two hours in there, which felt like plenty of time and we managed to see “everything”. There were a couple of rooms that we spent a lot more time in because they changed quickly, and others that we weren’t bothered about going back into.

Every room is really unique, like nothing I’ve really experienced before. Some of them are a bit like those mirror mazes that you find at funfairs, but on steroids. Others are full on artworks floating around you.

Today I’m going to take you on a little tour of the rooms – but I will add that it’s hard to convey just what it’s like in still photos, when in reality everything in the rooms is moving, and the music and sounds make you feel like you’re in a different world.

The flower room

This was the first room we walked through, with flowers floating all over the walls. There’s something really peaceful about this room, and because they are floating between sections of the room, it looks different wherever you look.

The main oasis room

Once you make it through all the flowers, you enter the main, central room, from which you can go anywhere in the museum. This is SO cool, with a “waterfall” cascading down the back wall, around some “rocks” and all across the floor in a massive “pool”. The boulder is actually a big slope, so you can go and sit on them, and indeed slide down them, which of course we did!

However, this is by far the busiest room in the place. Kids were running around, people were sliding everywhere. It was really hard to get photos of how great it looked because there were too many people.

But, because it’s the central room and all corridors lead back to here, you end up in the room a few times with varying crowd levels. We even came back in once to find there was no waterfall at all!!

It definitely felt like the “Instagram” centre room, and we started to wonder whether Borderless is really just an Insta location. Which… it sort of is, but as you’ll see, the rooms offer spectacular photo opportunities and not just for selfie gratification but as genuine art and an immersive experience, which I think is the best thing about the place. I guess it’s harder to have that immersive experience in the busiest room!

The bubble room

While I’m disappointed that TeamLab decided not to bring the lantern room to the new location, they have instead got this AMAZING crystal bubble room.

We spent ages in here, as the colours are constantly changing and it completely changed the lighting each time. Every one of my photos looked totally different. It’s also not just digital art – the balls are actually hanging from the ceiling! It’s absolutely beautiful.

Naturally, I have a TON of photos from this room – here are some of my favourites.

We went to an underwhelming art exhibition last year, funnily enough the work of another Japanese artist, Yayoi Kasuma, which was similar to this style of art in a mirrored room, but on a much smaller scale. This room reminded me of that exhibition, with its infinity effect, except on another level and more what I had expected from it. Proper immersion and so many things to look at from different angles while it changed in front of our eyes.

This was probably my favourite room!

The sparkly crystal room

While this room does look really cool in photos, it’s definitely a prime example of one that was WAY better in person. The lights are constantly moving, dancing and changing, and there are sound effects to bring it to life. At one point, we were stood in this massive open area of the room, and suddenly the lighting went dark, and it started “raining” (with the sound effects), the lights mimicking the movement of rain, going faster and faster and faster. We were honestly just stood looking up at them in awe!

I felt a real sense of calm in this room; something that is much better than any photo can pick up.

Despite the fact it looks like something that any teenage girl would have wanted in their bedroom (do you remember those bead curtains you could put in doorways?!) it’s much more than that.

The flower meadow room

This room didn’t take long to walk through, but it was a really nice set-up, with panels held up on sticks and flowers projected onto the panels to create the effect of walking through a meadow. So pretty, although hard to show in photos!

A picture of this I’ve just seen on the website shows a shoal of fish swimming through this exhibit, so actually, maybe it’s not just a flower meadow!?

This is one that we didn’t return to, but perhaps if we had, it would have been transformed into an underwater scene.

The dissolving flames room

I don’t really know how to describe this room, but we walked in and… walked through some air blowing colours everywhere. No, I don’t even know what I mean by that. And yet, that’s what we did. I got a REALLY cool photo of our friend!

I got the title of this section from the website because I wanted to see what it was actually called. I originally called it “the moving air room”!! Genuinely, if you can’t figure out what on earth I’m talking about, check out this video.

The underwater room

I actually started to feel a bit disorientated in this room, even though it was probably one of my favourites. It felt kind of similar to the oasis room – but with fish swimming through it! It was when I stood on the “water” that I started to feel totally off-balance!

Another prime example of “you need to experience it for yourself”, because I don’t seem to have any decent photos of the room at all!?

The children’s underwater room: Sketch Ocean

This room isn’t the most photogenic, but the concept is AMAZING! All the fish swimming around in the art have been drawn by visitors! You can draw your own to add to the wall and watch it swim in a virtual aquarium. How cool is that?!?

AND you can even go to the Sketch Factory afterwards and buy your own artwork on merch!! Seriously – what?!

You can also touch the fish to make them move faster. Low-key loved this room!

Microcosmoses – the mechanical ball room

Once again, I’m finding it hard to find the words to describe this room. All I can say was that there was a massive metal track intertwining around the whole room, with balls rolling along it continuously. It was one that was much better in person because it’s hard to show it in photos. Any photos I took with movement are blurred!

Other rooms

There were a handful of other rooms which were really cool but were just a quick walk-through with a couple of photos, like the water particles room.

I have some miscellaneous photos from TeamLab Borderless here – I genuinely don’t remember where those pink & purple flowers were, but isn’t it so pretty?!

As you can see, it was worth popping into all the random rooms to see what there was! Though sometimes it was hard to remember which ones we’d been into already.

The corridors

The rooms themselves aren’t the only places to see art. It is EVERYWHERE. Along one corridor we saw frogs riding bicycles – we even found them in a random room at one point – and along another, crashing waves followed us.

There were also butterflies that you could touch and they would explode into colour, and flower petals that floated through the air. According to the website, if I’m reading it correctly, if people destroy too many of the butterflies then they will disappear from the artwork forever!! Or does it just mean until more people go into the butterfly room? Is this a political statement about endangered species? Anyway, it’s this level of detail and immersiveness that really impressed me about the place.

Sometimes the art would float into a room, too… which is exactly why this place is called Borderless. The art doesn’t stop just because the room ends.

Honestly, that was probably one of my favourite things about the whole place!

The tea house

We finished our visit with a visit to the on-site tea house. This costs extra, and usually has a queue, but we didn’t have to wait too long and you can choose from different types of tea. You are taken through to a room where you sit with your tea while art projects onto the table and literally into your tea. Flowers bloom out of your tea, but what’s amazing about this is if you move your cup, the flowers start to bloom again in the tea, wherever you’ve moved it to!

Getting to Borderless

Since moving to their new location, Borderless is in a less interesting area for us. It used to be in Odaiba which has several other attractions, including a giant Gundam statue. It’s now in Azabudai Hills, an upmarket area of Tokyo next to Roppongi. Borderless itself is within a fancy shopping centre, with a giant Cartier store outside. It’s not somewhere we would have come otherwise, although the Tokyo TV Tower is nearby so that was pretty cool to see.

We went to Kamiyacho station and walked from there, which took less then ten minutes. It’s also a ten minute walk from Roppongi-Itchome station. They’re both on different lines so it depends where you’re coming from as to which is easiest.

Tickets are around 4000 yen for adult tickets, but it depends on the date – we paid a bit more in high season. This does get booked up, so make sure to book a timeslot in advance!

You can also change the date up to 3 times, which I didn’t realise until afterwards, just in case you discover you need to change it to accommodate other plans (we ended up working it around the Studio Ghibli museum!) but it does obviously depend on availability.

Overall, I was so impressed by this place! To be honest I felt like it was going to be very Instagrammy – which it was – but it was so, so much more than that. It’s just the level of detail; the fact nothing will look the same twice. Many of the artworks are being rendered in front of your eyes, rather than simply being a projection of an existing artwork.

I definitely recommend a visit if this looks like it would be your sort of thing! It was really awesome and some of the rooms are pretty mindblowing.

Are you into digital art museums? Let me know if you’ve been to any amazing ones!

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