10 photos inside Tokyo’s Teamlab borderless experience

Tokyo's hottest interactive art exhibit by Team Lab Borderless contains a labyrinth of rooms, each a unique and ever-changing kaleidoscope of nature-inspired patterns and color.

We stepped through a curtain into darkness. Faint outlines of children ran past us down the dark hallway in gleeful cries before darting behind another curtain.

We followed timidly, feeling our way along the corridor, chasing the music until it became louder until it boomed in our chests. A parade of figures appeared dancing on the walls and turned the corner out of sight. We crossed through a doorway and were immediately swallowed into a universe of floor-to-ceiling florals of every color and size. We watched as they changed endlessly reflecting, altering, and blending, from red roses to lavenders, to yellow sunflowers.

In the next room, people stomped on bugs projected onto the floor and jumped amongst galaxies on a star-lit trampoline. Off in the distance, color-changing balloons floated, bobbled, and bounced.

Every time we thought we had explored the last room, another appeared around the corner.

We left hours later, overstimulated and ready to return to reality.