Tokyo has two teamLab museums, and most first trips have room for one. teamLab Planets is in Toyosu, on the bay. teamLab Borderless is in Azabudai Hills, near Tokyo Tower. Most comparisons describe the rooms and leave the choice to taste. The choice is usually made earlier, by four plain facts: when you travel, whether you will walk barefoot through water, how fixed your day is, and where the rest of your day is.
Take them in this order. The first one that settles your case ends the question.
The answer, in the order the conditions decide it
- Your trip date. teamLab lists Planets’ run as July 7, 2018 to the end of 2027. Borderless is listed as permanent. Travel after 2027, and Borderless is the only one of the two.
- Bare feet and water. At Planets you take off your shoes and socks, and the water can reach an adult’s knees. If that is a no for anyone in your party, book Borderless.
- How fixed your day is. teamLab does not sell Planets tickets at the door. Borderless sells some on site while they last, for ¥200 more. If you cannot pick a date and time slot in advance, only Borderless leaves you a same-day chance.
- Where your day is, and what your party pays. Planets sits near Toyosu Market; Borderless sits near Tokyo Tower and Roppongi. At the adult prices teamLab lists, Borderless is ¥600 cheaper per adult.
Already know which one your conditions pick?
teamLab Borderless admission ticket on Klook
Planets, in Toyosu, is bare feet and knee-deep water, and teamLab sells no Planets tickets at the door. Borderless, in Azabudai Hills, is dry. Both enter by date and time slot.
Check this ticket on Klook →Sold on Klook (Klook Travel Technology Limited), an online travel agency; the museum is teamLab's. teamLab's own ticket section names its ticket website and Klook as the places to buy online. Before you pay, check on the listing: the entry date and time slot, the price for that date, how the ticket reaches you, and the change and cancellation terms. teamLab's own date-change rule covers only tickets bought on its own ticket website.
teamLab Planets TOKYO ticket on Klook
Planets, in Toyosu, is bare feet and knee-deep water, and teamLab sells no Planets tickets at the door. Borderless, in Azabudai Hills, is dry. Both enter by date and time slot.
Check this ticket on Klook →Sold on Klook (Klook Travel Technology Limited), an online travel agency; the museum is teamLab's. Before you pay, check on the listing: the entry date and time slot, the ticket type, how the ticket reaches you, and the change and cancellation terms. teamLab's own date-change rule covers only tickets bought from its own ticket store.
First: the date of your trip
This condition is about a calendar, not about taste. teamLab’s Planets page gives its term as “July 7, 2018 – End of 2027.” Its Borderless page gives “Feb 09, 2024 - Permanent.”
- Your trip is in 2028 or later: Borderless. Planets is not on the calendar teamLab has published.
- Your trip is before the end of 2027: both are open to you; go on to condition 2.
- You expect to come back to Tokyo after 2027: on the terms as posted, Borderless will still be there then, and Planets will not.
Check the closed days for your dates as well. As posted on September 25, 2026, Planets is closed Thursday, October 1 and Thursday, November 5. Borderless is closed Tuesday, October 20 and Tuesday, November 24, and closes at 5:00 p.m. on November 17.
Second: whether you will walk barefoot through water
This is the condition that separates the two museums most. teamLab describes Planets as “a museum where you walk through water.” Its visitor notes are specific:
- You remove your shoes, then your socks or stockings, in the locker area.
- “Water levels can rise to knee height even for adults.”
- If your clothes get wet, staff ask you to change before the next artwork. Towels can be rented.
- Some areas have mirrored floors. Shorts can be borrowed free, sizes XS to 6L.
When Planets is the wrong ticket: if anyone in your party will not take off their shoes, will not wade, or cannot have wet trouser legs, book Borderless. Planets has detour routes for visitors who want to skip certain artworks. But the water rooms are the reason to choose Planets, so a visit spent going around them is the less useful ticket of the two.
Two notes for families. At the Planets koi room, a child with an inseam under 40 cm may take part only when carried by an adult or in a baby carrier. Planets asks for one adult for every three children; Borderless asks for one for every five. Planets has diaper tables and a first aid room for nursing. Borderless says it has no nursing room.
Borderless has mirrored floors too; teamLab lends a wrap skirt near those works. Its visitor notes say nothing about water or bare feet. Wheelchair users can enter Borderless by elevator, though some works cannot be entered in a wheelchair and the number of wheelchair users admitted at once is limited.
Third: how fixed your day is
Both museums sell entry by date and time slot, and both use dynamic pricing. The difference is what happens if you have not booked.
| teamLab Planets | teamLab Borderless | |
|---|---|---|
| Tickets at the door | Not sold on site | Sold on site while they last, ¥200 more |
| Hours | 8:00–22:00 | 8:30–21:00; 22:00 on many October and November dates |
| Last entry | One hour before closing | One hour before closing |
| Date changes (teamLab’s own ticket site) | Up to 3 times, until 2 hours before your slot | Up to 3 times, until 2 hours before your slot |
| Cancellation | Not refundable | Not refundable, except an unscheduled closure |
| Time slot, no-time pass | ¥12,000 Premium Pass | ¥12,000 Flexible Pass |
Tickets bought elsewhere follow the seller’s own terms, not teamLab’s date-change rule. Both museums say the same for tickets bought through other sites.
If your day depends on weather or on jet lag, and you want to decide that morning, the table leaves one option: Borderless, bought on its own site or at the door while tickets last. If you can commit to a date and slot, both are open. Planets is late for your slot? Its page says you can still enter the same day during open hours; ask the staff.
Rain counts here too. The Planets moss garden is outdoors: it stays open in light rain and cannot be viewed in typhoon winds or heavy rain. Borderless is on a basement floor, and both of its stations connect to it by an underground passage.
Fourth: where your day is, and what your party pays
Planets is a one-minute walk from Shin-Toyosu Station on the Yurikamome line, five minutes from Shijo-mae Station and Toyosu Market, and ten minutes from Exit 7 of Toyosu Station on the Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line. teamLab warns that the Toei bus from Tokyo Station, Ginza and Tsukiji is heavily congested and asks visitors to use other transport.
Borderless is a two-minute walk from Exit 5 of Kamiyacho Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line, and six minutes from Exit 4 of Roppongi-Itchome Station on the Namboku Line. Both are Tokyo Metro stations, so a Tokyo Subway Ticket covers the ride to either museum’s Metro stop. The Yurikamome to Shin-Toyosu is a separate line.
If the rest of your day is the market and the bay, Planets is on your route. If it is Tokyo Tower, Roppongi or Azabudai, Borderless is. Our where to stay in Tokyo page shows which side of the city your hotel is on.
Then the fare. These are the prices teamLab lists; adult prices are dynamic, so check the price for your slot.
| Party | Planets | Borderless |
|---|---|---|
| 1 adult | ¥4,200 | ¥3,600 |
| 2 adults | ¥8,400 | ¥7,200 |
| 2 adults, 1 child aged 4–12 | ¥9,900 | ¥8,700 |
| 2 adults, 2 children aged 4–12 | ¥11,400 | ¥10,200 |
Children aged 4 to 12 are ¥1,500 at both, and children 3 and under are free. The gap is only in the adult price. It breaks a tie; it does not undo conditions 1 to 3.
So it works when you arrive: one case, worked through
Luggage first, because neither museum is a place to bring a suitcase. Planets has free lockers of 23 × 34 × 37 cm, and anything larger is locked with a wire in the stroller area. Borderless does not allow items over 50 cm and has free lockers. Arriving with a suitcase on your way to the hotel? Leave it at a station or with a service first; our luggage storage page covers how.
Two adults in Tokyo in November 2026, a hotel near Ginza, a fixed day, both happy to wade.
- Condition 1: 2026, so both are open.
- Condition 2: bare feet and knee-deep water are fine. Planets stays in.
- Condition 3: the date is fixed, so buying ahead is no problem.
- Condition 4: teamLab gives Planets as ten minutes by taxi from Ginza, and runs a paid shuttle from GINZA SIX. The adult price gap is ¥1,200 for the pair.
Planets fits. Change one fact and the answer changes with it. Make one of them unwilling to wade, and it is Borderless. Leave the day open until that morning, and Borderless is the only one with tickets at the door. Move the trip to 2028, and Borderless is the only one there.
Purchase decision: if your conditions ended at Planets (a trip before the end of 2027, everyone happy to go barefoot through water, a date you can commit to), buy the ticket before the day. Planets does not sell tickets at the door, and slots are sold by date and time. If your conditions ended at Borderless, buy from teamLab’s Borderless ticket site; the Planets ticket is not the ticket for you.
Planets or Borderless, decided?
teamLab Borderless admission ticket on Klook
Both enter by date and time slot, and teamLab does not sell Planets tickets at the door. Prices are dynamic (teamLab lists ¥4,200 per adult for Planets); check the price for your slot and the change terms on the listing.
Check this ticket on Klook →Sold on Klook (Klook Travel Technology Limited), an online travel agency; the museum is teamLab's. teamLab's own ticket section names its ticket website and Klook as the places to buy online. Before you pay, check on the listing: the entry date and time slot, the price for that date, how the ticket reaches you, and the change and cancellation terms. teamLab's own date-change rule covers only tickets bought on its own ticket website.
teamLab Planets TOKYO ticket on Klook
Both enter by date and time slot, and teamLab does not sell Planets tickets at the door. Prices are dynamic (teamLab lists ¥4,200 per adult for Planets); check the price for your slot and the change terms on the listing.
Check this ticket on Klook →Sold on Klook (Klook Travel Technology Limited), an online travel agency; the museum is teamLab's. Before you pay, check on the listing: the entry date and time slot, the ticket type, how the ticket reaches you, and the change and cancellation terms. teamLab's own date-change rule covers only tickets bought from its own ticket store.
We went to Borderless, on the morning of 12 January 2026, and have not been to Planets; the conditions above are what decides between them. That morning, minute by minute, is its own page.
MY TAKE
Light art spreading over everything — a break from the everyday.
Very Tokyo: even the art is city. That's what I like about it.
Next
Write down three things: the dates of your trip, whether everyone in your party will wade barefoot, and whether you can name a day and a time slot now. Those three lines settle most cases. Then book the slot, and plan the rest of that day around the station you will use: Toyosu for Planets, Kamiyacho for Borderless.
