Some 100,000 foreign tourists visit teamLab Planets in Toyosu, Tokyo

teamLab, Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers © teamLab

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Bernama) -- Approximately 100,000 people from overseas visited teamLab Planets in Toyosu, Tokyo between Dec 9, 2022 and Jan 9, according to PLANETS Co Ltd.

In a statement, it said around 60 per cent, or one in two visitors, were non-residents visiting Japan over the course of one month, and the number of foreign visitors has tripled compared to the same month in 2019 (before COVID-19).

According to a survey by the museum, it was known to about 70 per cent of foreign visitors before considering their trip to Japan, and there was a trend of the museum being one of the main purposes to visit Tokyo.

In the same statement, the company also announced that from March 1, 2023 to April 30, two works featuring cherry blossoms that bloom across the space will be on view during the spring season only.

The two works are Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers and Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People - Infinity.

Floating in the Falling Universe of Flowers, an artwork in which flowers bloom and change with the passage of time, and the universe of life spreads across the space, will be filled with cherry blossoms during this limited period.

Meanwhile, the work of Drawing on the Water Surface Created by the Dance of Koi and People - Infinity, depicts visitors walk in water and koi swim on the surface of the infinitely expanding water. When the koi collide with people, they turn into cherry blossoms and scatter.

Operated and managed by PLANETS Co Ltd, teamLab Planets is a museum where visitors could walk through water and a garden, they become one with the flowers. There are four massive exhibition spaces and two gardens.

More details at https://planets.teamlab.art/tokyo/

-- BERNAMA