TeamLab Borderless, Tokyo interactive digital art museum, makes a comeback with boundary-breaking installations
- TeamLab Borderless has been shut for nearly two years, but the attraction finally reopens in central Tokyo at Azabudai Hills on February 9
- The immersive digital art museum encourages visitors to roam freely in its expansive 7,000-square-metre space that houses more than 50 installations
Tokyo digital art museum teamLab Borderless closed its doors on the city’s Odaiba artificial island in August 2022. But now it is about to be reborn, in the Azabudai Hills development.
The highly anticipated reopening of the art attraction in its new home in the centre of the Japanese capital takes place on February 9, but the Post was granted a preview tour of the massive new space.
Upon arriving at Kamiyacho Station, I follow the exit signs to Azabudai Hills, a new upmarket lifestyle, residential and business development. A few minutes’ walk away is the museum.
The words “teamLab Borderless” plastered high across a wall within a long, concrete corridor turn out to be the first of the museum’s many artworks. A public relations representative explains that the words “come to life” only after being viewed through a camera lens.
I whip out my smartphone and gasp – but I won’t spoil the optical illusion for any future visitors reading this.
The monochromatic hallway leads into the black abyss of a doorway: the main entrance to the museum.
In 2019, I visited teamLab Planets, Borderless’ sister museum in Tokyo. It set the bar extremely high. Would I be equally blown away here?