🗾 What to visit in Tokyo: teamLab Borderless in Odaiba

Right before Christmas, I went with some friends to Odaiba, the artificial island in Tokyo bay, which can be reached either by riding the automated Yurikamome train or taking a walk on the Rainbow Bridge. 
Odaiba is a famous entertainment place, thanks to the Legoland Discovery center, the Maritime Science museum and a mini Statue of Liberty...it is also a turistic hotspots for all anime lovers because of the real life size Gundam statue.
Beside all of these above, in June 2018 a new attraction opened and has been attracting tourists and curious people ever since: the TeamLab Borderless permanent exhibition.

I'm sure most of you saw the famous 'floating' colour changing lanterns photos on Istagram, (they were litterally all over the social media last summer) so my friends and I decided to go check it out.

We arrived earlier in the afternoon and quite a queue had already formed...thankfully, it was faster moving than it seemed and once we left out coats in the locker room and scanned our tickets, we were in.

The entire building has no windows and every section is colourful and shows a different theme, but the main one is flowers. The first room is all shades of pink and purple flowers mixed with bright yellow sunflowers. Everything is in motion and the music is loud to make the visitor completely immersed in the moment: it can be dizzy at first, but you get used to it fairly quickly.

There is not a defined path so you can wander around carelessly and explore all the different sections, which not only involve games of lights and moving objects on walls, but also interactive structures like connected swings (really funny and very much shaky), climbing poles, the hanging lights strings room and a zone where you get to colour premade drawings and the staff scans them on the walls and floors.

  

We left the most famous part of the exhibition last not for choice, but simply because we found it last! Then again, another line to wait into and this time it wasn't that quickly...the lanterns are located in a one-sided mirrored room and only a certain amount of people are admitted in for a limited time, so have you smartphones and cameras ready to snap some photos.

Final thoughts 

The ticket's price varies depending on whether you go on a week day or on the weekend and also based from the our you choose to go in: on weekends is a bit more expensive, but for a once in a lifetime experience? Totally worth it! 
It's a different approach to art and displays creativity and skills, we stayed inside for almost three hours and we had so much fun discovering every section.
You might want to combine the visit to teamLab Borderless with a full day in Odaiba, browsing its malls stores, taking a stroll on the shore or experiencing what was like in the Edo period at Oedo Onsen Monogatari themed park...and don't forget to try the tempura at the dining floor of DiverCity Tokyo Plaza, it's really good!

Ph: all photo credits are mine