Written by TC Team
Tokyo is getting a third teamLab museum, and it’s going to be big. teamLab TOKYO (that’s the tentative name) is planned for Ariake, on the waterfront next to Odaiba, with an opening tentatively scheduled for 2032.
The museum itself will cover about 30,000 sqm. That’s roughly three times the size of teamLab Biovortex Kyoto, which opened in October 2025 at just over 10,000 sqm.
Around the venue, the plan is for the museum to connect seamlessly (borderlessly?) with open spaces: an urban forest, public plazas, and cafés.
Where exactly will the new teamLab TOKYO be?
The site is two plots in the Ariake North district, about 4.6 hectares in total. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government put them out to tender earlier in 2026 on the condition that the main use be cultural, and on September 8 it announced it had picked a partnership led by teamLab to develop them.
Ariake is the part of the bay best known for Tokyo Big Sight and Ariake Arena. It’s also a short hop from Toyosu, home of teamLab Planets, which is slated to close at the end of 2027.
Back to the bay
There’s a fair bit of teamLab history in the area. The original teamLab Borderless opened in Odaiba in 2018, closed in 2022, and reopened at Azabudai Hills in February 2024. So the new museum is a kind of return to the waterfront, a few stops from where it all started.
Why so big?
The numbers explain the ambition. According to teamLab, its two Tokyo museums drew about 4.2 million visitors in 2025 (roughly 2.5 million at Planets and 1.7 million at Borderless), up from 3.55 million in 2018, their first year.
A visitor survey at teamLab Planets suggests the museums have become one of the reasons people plan a trip to Japan in the first place, rather than something they add on once they’ve arrived.
What to do in the meantime
There’s nothing to book yet, and 2032 is a long way off. The only visual so far is a single rendering of the exterior. If you want your teamLab fix before then, take a look at our guides to teamLab Borderless and teamLab Planets, a head-to-head on which one to pick, and a rundown of every teamLab exhibition in Japan.
Details are from teamLab’s September 2026 press release and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s September 8 announcement. The name, size, and opening date are all provisional.
Source: Tokyo Metropolitan Government (in Japanese)
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