teamLab Welcomes More Than 4.2 Million Visitors in Tokyo

(eap) More than 4.2 million visitors were recorded by the art collective teamLab in 2025 across its two museum locations in Tokyo. The digital exhibition teamLab Borderless – which initially opened in 2018 on the island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay and has been based since 2024 in the newly developed Azabudai Hills complex in Minato district – welcomed approximately 1.69 million guests last year. A further 2.51 million visitors were drawn in 2025 to teamLab Planets in the Toyosu district (Kōtō district), where the exhibition has likewise been operating since 2018. According to the collective, numerous guests also travelled from abroad, including visitors from the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

Although both venues present immersive multimedia installations and make extensive use of projection mapping, their concepts differ. At Borderless, the digital artworks are not confined to fixed rooms. Projections “move” throughout the exhibition, linking individual spaces with one another. Visitors freely choose their own path and explore the installations without a predefined route. By contrast, Planets offers a more sensory experience. Visitors walk barefoot through water, step onto soft or mirrored surfaces and thus experience a deliberate merging of body and artwork. The exhibition concept follows a clearly structured, linear visitor flow and places stronger emphasis on physical immersion, with guests becoming part of the staging itself.

teamLab is also continuing to expand its international presence with new locations. In 2025, a teamLab exhibition opened in the Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi. The teamLab exhibition announced for the UBS Digital Art Museum in Hamburg – described as the largest teamLab presentation in Europe to date – is now scheduled to open this year. ■