teamLab Borderless

teamLab Borderless is currently located at Azabudai Hills in Tokyo's Minato district, not at its original Odaiba site.

The Odaiba venue that made teamLab Borderless internationally famous closed permanently on August 31, 2022. teamLab Borderless reopened at an entirely new, purpose-built venue at Azabudai Hills on February 9, 2024, with reworked and expanded versions of its signature installations alongside new works never shown at the Odaiba location. Any information describing teamLab Borderless as operating in Odaiba today is out of date.

The museum occupies the basement level of Garden Plaza B, one of the buildings inside the Azabudai Hills complex.

Unlike a conventional museum with a fixed route, teamLab Borderless is designed as a continuous, interconnected world without a printed floor map. Rooms of moving light, projection, and mirrored surfaces flow into one another, and several installations respond directly to visitor movement, changing color, pattern, or shape as people walk through the space.

Visitors keep their shoes on throughout the museum.

This is one of the clearest practical differences from teamLab Planets, the other teamLab museum in Tokyo, located across the city in Toyosu. Planets is built around barefoot, water-based installations with wet floors, while Borderless is a dry, shoes-on experience from entry to exit, aside from a few areas with reported uneven flooring where comfortable, closed-toe shoes are recommended over sandals.

Photography and video are actively encouraged at teamLab Borderless, including for posting on social media.

The one meaningful restriction is on equipment: tripods, monopods, and selfie sticks or supports of 30 centimeters or longer are not permitted, and flash photography is not allowed. Handheld phones and small cameras are the standard way almost everyone documents a visit.

Because teamLab Borderless operates on a timed-entry ticketing system, advance online booking is effectively required rather than optional.

Tickets are sold at dynamic prices that vary by date, and booking directly through teamLab's official ticketing site is typically about ¥200 cheaper per ticket than buying on-site, when walk-up availability exists at all. Same-day re-entry is permitted once inside, which makes it possible to step out for a break and come back later the same day.

Most visitors plan for around 2 to 3 hours inside, though the exact time depends heavily on pace and how many of the installations a visitor stops to fully experience.

There is no enforced time limit once inside, and several visitor accounts describe the museum feeling noticeably busier later in a visit than at the start, since guests arriving on later timed slots accumulate inside the same spaces. Arriving for an early morning or a late-entry slot is the most consistently recommended way to see the installations with fewer people around.

For a traveler deciding between teamLab's two Tokyo venues, the choice usually comes down to location and format rather than one being simply better than the other.

Borderless sits in central Tokyo near Roppongi and Tokyo Tower, making it easy to pair with a half-day of Minato-area sightseeing, while Planets is a dedicated trip out to Toyosu near Tokyo Bay. Borderless's shoes-on, dry-floor format is generally easier to manage with young children or mobility concerns than Planets' barefoot, water-based rooms, though Planets' water and flower installations remain a genuinely different visual experience that Borderless does not attempt to replicate.