Lazy morning in our new hotel. Little bit of a sleep in. Diligent blog readers might remember my mentioning on about the Weds of our first week here that the activity I’d planned for that day had sold out. So we booked tickets then for our return to Tokyo. For today.

Found a Pikachu vending machine. Had to share photos for Charlie. Note: dispensed drinks, not Pokemon, in exchange for money.

We travelled to Odaiba – a journey which required us to take 3 different trains – and attempted to find MORI Building Digital Art Museum. Unfortunately, our portable wi-fi, which had served us so well up to that point, let us down that day and our access to google maps was spotty. We got close – at DiverCity Tokyo Plaza. Had some lunch there then headed out the other side of the mall, in what we hoped was the right direction, only to stumble upon this:

It’s a life-sized Unicorn Gundam statue. And it was very impressive.

Managed to locate the MORI Building Digital Art Museum and the installation we wanted to see: teamLab borderless. It’s pretty hard to explain so I’ll just copy and paste the blurb:

“teamLab Borderless is a world of art without boundaries, a museum without a map.

teamLab Borderless is a group of artworks that form one borderless world. Artworks move out of rooms, communicate with other works, influence, and sometimes intermingle with each other with no boundaries.

Immerse your body in borderless art in this vast, complex, three-dimensional 10,000 square metre world. Wander, explore with intention, discover, and create a new world with others.”

Having read that, I’m not sure it helps. I’ll post some photos, that will no doubt fail to do it justice.

Essentially, there are big rooms and small rooms – some easier to find than others. They all have digital art. There is no set way to make your way around. There is no guarantee you’ll find all the artwork. Some is interactive (will respond to your touch, to noise, to movement). Some move from room to room. Some do interesting things when they meet another particular artwork. We had fun:

I’m understating it actually. We loved it. And we’re pretty sure we were in there for between 3-4 hours. It was amazing – highly recommended.

After that we went back to the hotel to attempt to have an early-ish night. Because…. DISNEYLAND tomorrow!