Okinawa teamLab Future Park Admission Ticket

Where my fish swim, teamLab Future Park Okinawa

Okinawa's teamLab is an experiential art playground in the heart of Okinawa, perfect for both rain and shine. TeamLab Future Park is designed around collaborative co-creation, allowing the artwork to flourish as more people participate simultaneously. Instead of staring at a screen, visitors run, touch, and move. Their actions transform the light, color, ecosystem, and flow of the entire space. Particularly impressive is the experience of seeing a drawing on paper instantly come to life in the exhibition hall, mingling with others' work. After enjoying the exhibition, visitors can continue their journey with duty-free shopping within the same building, ensuring a seamless flow.

TeamLab Main Exhibition Guide

Title: Graffiti Nature in a Rugged Valley - Symbiotic Life, One Year Turns into One, Red List
Credit (Shortened): Graffiti Nature in a Beating Valley - Symbiotic Lives, A Whole Year per Year, Red List
Credit: teamLab, 2023-, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Biting Valley is a space where three-dimensional terrain constantly transforms and curves, with visual perception and bodily sensations becoming disjointed.
Biting Valley is home to a variety of creatures drawn by everyone. When you color a creature on the provided paper, your drawing comes to life and begins to move before your eyes. This place is a connected ecosystem, where creatures feed on each other and are consumed by each other in a cyclical cycle. The creatures you draw increase in number by eating other creatures, but if they don't eat enough or are eaten by other creatures, they die and disappear.
Salamanders eat snakes, snakes eat lizards, lizards eat frogs, and frogs eat butterflies. Each organism reproduces along the food chain. Butterflies also increase in abundance where flowers grow.
If people stand still, flowers will bloom, but if people walk by and step on them, the petals will scatter. Even salamanders die if they are stepped on too much.
Life spreads across the globe, increasing and decreasing in population. The creatures I drew might also be increasing somewhere.
Sometimes, this work interacts with Animals of Flowers and Symbiotic Lives, causing flowers corresponding to the current season in the real world to grow and bloom from the creatures. When people step on the animals made of flowers, petals scatter.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List is a database that compiles the conservation status of species. This work features threatened and endangered species among wild animals assessed on the Red List.

Title: Table where little people live
Credit (Shortened): A Table where Little People Live
Credit: teamLab, 2013-, Interactive Installation

If you place something on the table, like a hand, little people will jump up onto it. Depending on the shape of the object placed on the table, the little people may slide, jump, or climb. Place various objects on the table and watch as the little people's world transforms into a whole new world.

Background of the work
The Three Laws of Mechanics
The movement of things in this world can be explained by three laws.

law of inertia
Unless a separate external force acts on an object, the object maintains its current state.
For example, if you're on a stationary train and it suddenly starts moving, your body will try to stay stationary, so you'll feel pulled in the opposite direction of the train's movement. Conversely, if a moving train suddenly stops, your body will try to keep moving forward, so you'll be pulled in the direction the train was moving.

Laws of Motion
When a new external force acts on an object, it begins to move in the direction of the force. The magnitude of this movement depends on the strength of the applied force and the object's weight.
For example, it takes more force to push a heavier object. Also, if you bounce a heavy ball and a light ball with the same amount of force, the lighter ball will bounce faster.

The law of action and reaction
When you apply force to an object, an equal amount of force always comes back in the opposite direction.
For example, if I push against a wall, the same amount of force I exerted returns in the opposite direction from the wall.

Title: Light Ball Orchestra
Credit (Shortened): Light Ball Orchestra
Credit: teamLab, 2013–, Interactive Installation, Sound: teamLab

When you roll a light ball, its color and sound change. When several light balls come together, they create an orchestra.
The light beads hanging from the ceiling communicate with the ones on the floor. Touching one causes a chain reaction in the surrounding beads, changing the color of the entire space. Rolling the light beads in front of me causes them to change color and emit a sound.
In the same space, participants move their bodies and interact with light beads of different sizes, changing the color of the space and creating music in the process.

Title: Hopscotch for Genius: Splashing on Water
Credit (Shortened): Hopscotch for Geniuses: Bounce on the Water
Credit: teamLab, 2020-, Interactive Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Square, triangle, and circle shapes float on a bouncy waterbed. Children enjoy jumping on them and playing hopscotch.
If you step on the same shape in succession, a fish, butterfly, or bird will be created for each shape.
If you step on the same color consecutively, that color will spread throughout the space.
The more you continue to step on the same shape or color, the richer the world becomes.
When you touch the fish, butterflies, and birds moving along the wall, the animals disappear as if they are melting into the world.

Title: Waterfall Droplets: Small Water Droplets Create Big Movements
Credit (Shortened): Waterfall Droplets, Little Drops Cause Large Movement
Credit: teamLab, 2018-, Interactive Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Countless droplets fall and flow along the terrain. A single droplet bounces like a ball, but when people gather the droplets with their entire bodies, they exhibit the properties of flowing water. And when the droplets fall together, they begin to bounce back into ball form.
A single water molecule cannot form a liquid. For water to become liquid, many water molecules must come together. Water molecules are attracted to each other like magnets, so they stick together and form clusters. These clusters are believed to be very short-lived, constantly forming and breaking apart. Because their structure is so dynamic, water can take on a variety of forms.
Most living things and objects in this world exist as a whole, more than just the sum of their parts.

Title: Animals living in symbiosis with flowers: One year becomes one year
Credit (Shortened): Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Lives - A Whole Year per Year
Credit: teamLab, 2017-, Interactive Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

Animals are born from flowers and people. While they cannot be controlled, they live together, formed from the flowers that bloom in their birthplace. As the flowers of their birthplace change over time, so do the flowers that make up the animals. Through a cycle of birth and death, these flowers continue to create animal forms.
When people touch an animal's flower, its petals scatter. If they touch it too much, the animal dies, gradually fading away and disappearing.

Title: Sketch Aquarium: Connected Worlds
Credit (Shortened): Sketch Aquarium: Connected World
Credit: teamLab, 2021-, Interactive Digital Installation, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

A variety of fish, all drawn by everyone, swim around in this aquarium.
When you color fish on the provided paper, your drawing comes to life and enters a massive aquarium right before your eyes. You can see them swimming in the same aquarium with other people's fish. Touch the swimming fish with your hand, and they'll swim away as if they're running away. You can also feed the fish by touching the food bag.
The tuna swims beyond the physical boundaries of the artwork, connecting to the Sketch Aquarium and Sketch Ocean works exhibited around the world. Similarly, tuna drawn from other parts of the world may appear and swim in the Sketch Aquarium before me.

Title: Slipping through the Fruit Orchard
Credit (Shortened): Sliding through the Fruit Field
Credit: teamLab, 2016-, Interactive Installation

This is a slide where fruit grows.
I become sunlight and slide down the slope. As I slide, I collide with water droplets and bee balls, and my energy is transferred to them, bouncing them in all directions. When the balls collide with fruit, the fruit begins to grow.
The ball has different roles depending on its color.
The light blue ball represents water. When this ball touches a seed, it sprouts, buds form, and flowers bloom.
When a yellow bee ball touches a flower, pollination occurs and the flower becomes a fruit.
When a fruit hits a ball, a new seed is sown, and that seed leads to another life.

Background of the work
The relationship between fruit and bees
Fruit-bearing plants bloom. The nectar from the flowers provides food for many insects, including bees. Most fruit trees cannot produce fruit without insect pollination, and ultimately, they struggle to produce seeds and reproduce. Insects like bees and butterflies coexist with plants.
This phenomenon of different living things cooperating and living together is called symbiosis.

Title: A Story of a Time When Gods Were Everywhere
Credit (Shortened) : Story of the Time when Gods were Everywhere
Credit: Sisyu + teamLab, 2013-, Interactive Digital Installation, Calligraphy: Sisyu, Sound: Hideaki Takahashi

When people touch the letters projected on the wall, representing mountains, trees, birds, and more, a world emerges within them, creating a story. The objects represented by the symbols interact with each other and are influenced by the actions of others. For example, a bird may land on a tree, a sheep may run away from a dog, and a sheep may dance when a child approaches.

Background of the work
Origin of Chinese characters
Since ancient times, words have been believed to possess a spiritual power—the spiritual power of language. However, because words are fleeting, this power could not remain within them. According to the theory of Shizuka Shirakawa, a scholar of Chinese literature, writing was born when people preserved the power they held in words in pictorial form, creating ideographs to record words more effectively.
Chinese characters are believed to have been created around 1200 BC, during the Shang Dynasty. Kings of that time communicated with the gods through divination. Divination was practiced in connection with rituals, weather, and important dynastic decisions, such as war, harvest, and hunting. Records of these communications with the gods, oracle bone script, were carved into tortoise shells or animal bones in the form of pictorial symbols, and this, in turn, is the origin of Chinese characters.