![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 1_web.jpeg]] Waiting for our arrival window at teamLab Planets so we can join the queue. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 2_web.jpeg]] In addition to all of the visual aspects, I also appreciated the tactile ones. Everyone takes off their shoes so even the textures of the floor are part of the experience. This room was pillowy. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 3_web.jpeg]] Mirrored surfaces create infinite spaces. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 4_web.jpeg]] ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 5_web.jpeg]] Huge rooms of pulsing lights and sound, shifting from dark moody moments to bright explosions of light and color. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 6_web.jpeg]] One room has you wade through milky-colored waters as colors and projected koi swim around you. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 7_web.jpeg]] These koi won't nibble at your toes. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 8_web.jpeg]] ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 9_web.jpeg]] A room of balloons shifts color in patterns as you navigate through it, pushing them aside as you progress. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 10_web.jpeg]] Doug captured this amazing photo of me in a dome shaped room with galactic ceiling projections. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 11_web.jpeg]] Shoes back on now, in an indoor/outdoor space with these strange chrome orbs. (Apparently they light up at night too.) ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 12_web.jpeg]] A wing of the experience is even more interactive, with areas you climb around in. Here we explore what feels like an undersea room. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 13_web.jpeg]] Doug and I climbed these suspended colorful planks. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 14_web.jpeg]] ...and bounced along a colorful path of these bouncy half-spheres. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 15_web.jpeg]] One wing has you use your phone to "capture and release" endangered animals. Took a little getting used to but the ethereal projected environments were cool to look at. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 16_web.jpeg]] A quick stop outside for a snack and one of the outdoor installations. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 17_web.jpeg]] In this orchid room, the orchids clear out of your path as you (very slowly) approach them. So you can take baby steps through a room solidly filled with orchids and they will gently float out of your way to walk the way you are facing. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 18_web.jpeg]] I loved that this installation really almost forces you to slow down and experience it fully -- though there were still many among us who did not and pushed or climbed through. ![[2025-03-TeamLab_Planets - 19_web.jpeg]] teamLab Planets was gorgeous and a good way to spend an afternoon in Tokyo!