Tokyo Digital Art Museum — Official teamLab Planets Tickets

Two teamLab Museums, One Confusing Ticket Situation

Tokyo has two permanent teamLab museums, and most visitors only work out the difference after they’ve bought the wrong ticket. teamLab Planets sits in Toyosu, on the waterfront east of the city centre — its full venue name is teamLab Planets TOKYO DMM, which is why “Tokyo digital art museum” and “Planets” refer to the same place. teamLab Borderless reopened in February 2024 inside the Azabudai Hills complex in Minato, after its original Odaiba location closed. Same art collective, two genuinely different museums — and, crucially, two different ways of buying tickets.

Planets is the wet one. You hand over your shoes and socks at the lockers and walk the entire museum barefoot. One signature sequence has you wading through water that can reach an adult’s knees while projected koi scatter light around your legs; other rooms have mirrored floors, a garden of thousands of living orchids that descend around you, and — since the museum grew roughly 1.5× in its January 2025 expansion — an Athletics Forest, a Catching and Collecting Extinct Forest, and the collaborative Future Park. Most people now spend 2–3 hours inside.

Borderless is the wandering one. No water, shoes stay on. Artworks leave their rooms, drift down corridors, and blend into one another — there’s no set route and no map, and getting productively lost is the point. Its EN TEA HOUSE, where flowers bloom inside your cup of tea, survived the move from Odaiba intact.

Where to Actually Buy Each Ticket

Here is the part most affiliate sites blur, so we’ll say it plainly:

• teamLab Planets entry: bookable on this site. The ticket we feature below is the venue’s official entry ticket sold through GetYourGuide — the same timed-entry admission the museum sells, with instant mobile confirmation, from $22. It’s rated 4.6/5 by 12,746 verified guests, making it one of the most-reviewed attraction tickets in Japan.
• teamLab Borderless entry: GetYourGuide does not sell a standalone Borderless ticket. If all you want is plain Borderless admission, buy it from the official teamLab site, where timed-entry tickets are released about two months ahead with date-based pricing (roughly ¥3,800–¥5,600 for adults, with a ¥200 surcharge for buying at the door). Popular dates genuinely sell out weeks ahead — booking 2–3 weeks early is the standard advice.
• The exception: if you’d like Borderless with a guide, the guided combos we list below include Borderless admission — one pairs it with the Imperial Palace East Gardens, the other with the National Art Center and the Azabudai Hills complex. Both are newer tours with small but strongly positive review counts (4.9/5 from 22 and 16 reviews respectively), and we say so rather than hiding it.

For the full breakdown — including prices in yen, sellout patterns and which museum suits kids — read our teamLab Planets vs Borderless guide.

Which One Should You Pick?

If it’s your first trip and you’re choosing one: most first-timers should pick Planets. The barefoot-and-water format is the thing you can’t get anywhere else, the 2025 expansion added the family-friendly Athletics Forest and Future Park, and the ticket is cheaper and easier to get. Pick Borderless if you’ve already done Planets, prefer to keep your shoes on, or want the more meditative, maze-like version of teamLab — and are organised enough to book it ahead on the official site.

With kids the answer tilts further toward Planets: the new areas are explicitly built for play and learning, under-3s enter free, and the knee-deep water is a feature rather than a problem (staff hand out towels, and lockers are free). Toddlers who hate wet feet are the one caveat.

Sold Out? What Still Works

teamLab tickets run on timed entry, and both museums sell out popular slots — weekends, evenings and holiday weeks first. If your Planets date shows no availability, check adjacent morning slots (the 9:00–11:00 window sells last), or shift one day — weekday mornings almost never sell out outside holiday periods. If Borderless is sold out on the official site for your dates, the guided combos are often still bookable because they hold their own admission allocations — that’s the honest reason they cost more than a bare ticket.

Getting There, and Making a Day of It

Planets is a one-minute walk from Shin-Toyosu Station on the Yurikamome Line (about ten minutes on foot from Toyosu Station on the Yurakucho Line). Toyosu Market and its sushi breakfasts are one stop away, and the Ginza district is a short train ride back toward the centre. If you’re building a full Tokyo day around it, a morning Planets slot pairs neatly with an evening Tokyo food tour in Shinjuku on the other side of the city.

Opening hours run long — typically 8:00 to 22:00 with last entry an hour before closing — so an early or late slot can bracket almost any itinerary. Book your date below, put your socks in the locker, and walk into the water.