AT MORI DIGITAL ART MUSEUM, THE FUTURE IS PLAYFUL
Also part of the Mori real estate empire, the Mori Digital Art Museum/TeamLab
Borderless is pure play, letting kids and adults envision and create virtual
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Life in the future can be beautiful, imaginative, and whimsical, Borderless tells
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constantly changing art, or climb playground equipment embedded with
mysterious lights.
I spent about two hours at Borderless, because my teenage daughter kept
drawing creatures and seeing how they’d interact with everyone else’s
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If you intend to go to Borderless, it’s smart to buy tickets in advance; access is
controlled, and they sell out. Borderless is in Odaiba, a low-lying series of
islands in eastern Tokyo covered in shopping malls and oddball tourist
attractions. Within walking distance is a small-scale Statue of Liberty, an
oversized Gundam, and a really big Ferris wheel. After Borderless, we ended up
eating and playing with puppies in Venus Fort, an over-the-top mall that looks
like the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas.