Tokyo Walking Tour with teamLab Borderless Ticket and Imperial Palace

Explore Tokyo's Imperial Palace and teamLab Borderless on a guided tour with a 1.5-hour digital art visit.

Getting started

Meet your local expert guide at the designated starting point in central Tokyo for this guided walking tour. After a brief introduction to the route and logistics, you will begin exploring the Imperial Palace area and its gardens on foot. Your guide will then lead you to teamLab Borderless, where you will use your entry ticket to access the digital art museum for your timed 1.5-hour visit.

What to expect

Imperial Palace and East Gardens

Your experience begins around the historic Imperial Palace, the residence of Japan's Emperor and a key site for understanding the country's past. When accessible, the tour includes a walk through the East Gardens, where your guide shares context about Japan's rich history and the Samurai era.

Features

• The guided visit to the Imperial Palace and its East Gardens is led by an expert local guide, who explains how this area connects to key moments in Japanese history and governance.
• Time in the East Gardens is used to explore landscaped grounds and preserved structures, while your guide highlights links to the Samurai era and the evolution of the palace complex.
• The itinerary is flexible, as the East Gardens are closed on Mondays and Fridays, and your guide adapts the route based on access on the day of your tour.

Nijubashi Bridge

Nijubashi Bridge is one of Tokyo's most photographed Imperial Palace landmarks, recognized for its twin-bridge silhouette over the moat. Your guide brings you to this viewpoint so you can capture classic photo angles and better understand its symbolic role.

Features

• At Nijubashi Bridge, you have time for photo opportunities, with your guide pointing out the best positions to frame the bridge, palace walls, and surrounding water.
• This stop is included as part of the visit to the Imperial Palace and gardens, giving you a closer look at one of the most iconic elements of the palace grounds.
• Your guide uses this location to explain how the bridge fits into Imperial Palace access and ceremonies, adding context to what you see.

Sakuradamon Gate and Outer Gardens

When the East Gardens are closed, your tour focuses more on the Outer Gardens, Nijubashi Bridge, and the historic Sakuradamon Gate area. Sakuradamon Gate is one of the remaining gates of the former Edo Castle and forms a key part of the defensive ring around the palace.

Features

• The visit to Sakuradamon Gate is included on the guided tour, with your expert guide outlining how this gate once formed part of the castle's defenses.
• Around the Outer Gardens, your guide leads you through open spaces around the palace perimeter and explains how these grounds connect the modern city to the former Edo Castle layout.
• This flexible routing around Sakuradamon Gate and the Outer Gardens replaces the East Gardens section on Mondays and Fridays, so your experience remains comprehensive even when inner areas are closed.

teamLab Borderless

The second part of your experience takes you inside teamLab Borderless, an immersive digital art museum that blends projection, sound, and interactive technology. Here, you spend a 1.5-hour visit moving through interconnected rooms where artworks respond to your presence.

Features

• Your entry ticket to teamLab Borderless grants access to its full digital art environment, where you experience the fusion of art and technology across multiple interactive spaces.
• The 1.5-hour digital art visit is structured so you have enough time to explore different rooms, watch artworks evolve, and notice how installations change as visitors move through them.
• While inside teamLab Borderless, you continue independently, using the perspectives shared earlier by your professional guide to appreciate how the artworks create a "borderless" world that shifts continuously around you.