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teamLab Planets
How to visit teamLab Planets in Tokyo: which timed slot to book, why you'll be barefoot in knee-deep water, and whether it's worth the price.
Where
Tokyo, Japan
Opening hours
Roughly 09:00–22:00, with last entry around 21:00; hours shorten on some days, so confirm your exact date on the official store. Entry is by 15-minute timed slot, not a general opening time.
Tickets
From about ¥3,600 (~£18) for adults on weekdays, rising to roughly ¥4,200 (~£21) at weekends and on holidays; junior/high-school students ~¥2,800, children 4–12 ~¥1,500, under-4s free.
Time needed
90 minutes to two hours barefoot inside; add 15–20 minutes at the lockers to stash shoes and bags before you start.
In short
Visiting teamLab Planets
Book a timed teamLab Planets slot online before you fly — entry is in 15-minute windows that sell out days ahead, and there's no on-the-day queue. It's a barefoot museum: you wade through shin-to-knee-deep water in two rooms, so wear bottoms you can roll above the knee (skirts and long dresses don't work, though staff lend wrap shorts). Allow 90 minutes to two hours, get to Shin-Toyosu Station on the Yurikamome line, and book the first or last slot of the day to dodge the worst crowds.
How to visit without wasting the slot
teamLab Planets isn’t a museum you wander into — it’s a timed-entry walk-through that releases tickets in 15-minute slots, and those slots sell out days ahead for weekends, holidays and the popular evening windows. Book online before you fly. There’s no dependable on-the-day queue, so turning up on spec in peak season usually means standing outside reading the sold-out screen.
It’s also, genuinely, a barefoot museum. You stash your shoes, bag and coat in a free locker at the entrance, then walk the whole route in bare feet — and in two of the rooms you wade through water that sits around 30cm deep, shin-to-knee on most adults. Wear bottoms you can roll above the knee. Long skirts and dresses don’t work here (mirror floors run through several rooms too), though staff lend free wrap-around shorts at reception if you’ve arrived in a short skirt — ask at the lockers rather than discovering the problem mid-room.
A spectacle to feel, not a gallery to study
The rooms are designed to feel boundless, which falls apart when forty other people are wading through with you. Book the first slot of the morning or a late-evening weekday window (Tuesday and Wednesday after 19:00 are the quietest) to get the floating-orchid room and the mirrored koi pond closer to empty. Allow 90 minutes to two hours inside, plus fifteen at the lockers before you start. Phones and cameras come in with you; tripods and selfie sticks don’t.
Getting there is easy: the Yurikamome line to Shin-Toyosu Station drops you a minute from the door via the North (1A) exit, about 30 minutes and ¥330 from Shibuya via a change at Shimbashi. If immersive digital art appeals, it’s a memorable hour and the photos are extraordinary — but it’s a spectacle to feel, not a gallery to study, and it isn’t cheap for the time inside. Pair it with the Toyosu fish market or SmallWorlds next door rather than treating it as a half-day on its own.
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