Skytree and teamLab Tickets: The Official Prices, and What the Resellers Charge

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This is the one category on this site where the honest advice is: do not book through a marketplace. An adult ticket to teamLab Planets costs ¥4,200 from the museum’s own shop. On a big tour marketplace the same admission is listed at ¥8,425 and ¥7,967. The Tokyo Skytree’s Tembo Deck starts at ¥1,800 booked in advance on the official site; the resellers want ¥2,539 to ¥4,190. Nobody is doing anything illegal — these are ordinary resale margins — but you should know you are paying them. Below: the official prices, checked on the operators’ own ticket pages on September 26, 2026, what the third parties charge, and the two cases where paying a middleman is genuinely the right call.

The prices, side by side

Adult ticket	Official	Marketplace listings
teamLab Planets, Toyosu	¥4,200 (dynamic; ¥4,200–¥4,800 over the next two months)	¥8,425 · ¥7,967
teamLab Borderless, Azabudai	¥3,600 (dynamic, +¥200 if bought on site)	¥9,300
Skytree Tembo Deck, 350m	from ¥1,800 advance (+¥500 at the counter)	¥2,539 · ¥4,190
Skytree Deck + Galleria, 450m	from ¥3,000 advance, or add the Galleria inside for ¥1,400	bundled into guided tours from ¥13,000

Children are cheaper everywhere and free below a certain age: under 3 at both teamLab venues, under 6 at the Skytree. Both teamLab sites also sell a discounted ticket to holders of a disability certificate — ¥2,100 at Planets, ¥1,800 at Borderless, each valid for one companion as well.

teamLab Planets, Toyosu — and it closes at the end of 2027

Planets is at 6-1-16 Toyosu in Koto City, which makes it the single biggest visitor attraction on this side of the river. You walk barefoot through water. It is worth the money and the crowd.

Four things from the official site that change how you book it:

• The run ends at the end of 2027. The site’s own header reads “July 7, 2018 – End of 2027”. If you are planning a trip for 2028, this is not in it.
• Tickets are not sold on site at all. There is no window and no machine. Turning up without a timed ticket means not getting in.
• Resale is prohibited in the museum’s own terms, which state that visitors cannot enter with a ticket bought through resale and that the museum takes no responsibility in that case. Buy from the official store or a named distributor, not from a person.
• It is open 08:00 to 22:00, last entry 21:00 — far longer hours than any other attraction in this article. An 08:00 slot on a weekday is a different museum from a Saturday afternoon.

Book at the official teamLab Planets ticket store, where the calendar shows the price per date and lets you change the date up to three times. If you would rather book where the rest of your trip is, Klook sells the same admission at around the official price — US$27.75 at the time of writing, 4.7 from over 21,000 reviews — and is the one third party this article will recommend. The ¥8,425 marketplace listing, rated 4.5 from about ten reviews, and its ¥7,967 sibling, rated 3.5 from 46, are the same ticket at nearly double — and that 3.5 is the lowest rating of any listing on this website.

Two genuinely useful add-ons do exist. A shuttle bus from Tokyo Station and Ginza saves the Yurikamome change, and if you drive, showing a same-day Planets ticket at LaLaport Toyosu gets you an hour of free weekday parking.

teamLab Borderless, Azabudai

The other one, in Azabudai Hills in Minato — a museum without a map, permanent rather than time-limited, and currently showing a special exhibition. Adults ¥3,600 under dynamic pricing, 13–17 ¥2,800, 4–12 ¥1,500, under 3 free, and +¥200 if you buy at the venue. Same-day tickets are available when it has not sold out.

The important line is in teamLab’s own ticket section: official sales are the official ticket website and Klook, and nowhere else. That makes the Klook listing — from about US$28.05, 4.7 from over 23,000 reviews — the only third party the operator itself recognises. A ¥9,300 listing elsewhere is more than two and a half times the official price for the same entry.

Planets or Borderless? Planets is water, barefoot, bigger sensations, about two hours, and on the east side. Borderless is denser, drier, more of a maze, and easier to combine with central Tokyo. If you are doing one and you are staying anywhere near the river, do Planets.

Tokyo Skytree, and the ¥500 nobody mentions

634 metres, in Oshiage, Sumida. The official structure is simple once you see it written down:

• Tembo Deck (350m): adults from ¥1,800, children 6–14 from ¥900, under 6 free.
• Deck + Tembo Galleria (450m): adults from ¥3,000, children from ¥1,500.
• Buying at the 4th-floor counter or machines adds ¥500 per ticket. This is the single most avoidable cost in Tokyo sightseeing: book the same ticket online before you arrive and it is not charged.
• The Galleria can be added inside for ¥1,400 adults, ¥700 children, at machines on the Deck, with no surcharge and subject to capacity. So the low-risk play is to buy the ¥1,800 deck ticket, look at the weather from 350m, and pay the extra only if it is clear.

Prices move with the date under dynamic pricing, so the ¥1,800 is a floor rather than a promise. Buy at the official ticket page. If you want it on the same platform as everything else, Klook’s Skytree ticket is the most-booked version anywhere, 4.7 from nearly 25,000 reviews, from about US$19.65 — above the official floor, so compare on the day. The marketplace listings at ¥2,539 (4.0 from over 740 reviews, the weakest score of any Skytree option) and ¥4,190 exist, and the second has no reviews at all at more than twice the official floor.

And the local heresy, which this site will keep repeating: the Skytree is the best thing to look at in east Tokyo and one of the less interesting things to look from. The view is enormous and flat, and the tower itself is missing from it. The free alternative is five minutes away and almost nobody uses it: Sumida City Office, where the lift halls are open to the public up to the 14th floor and look straight at the tower — the 13th is the one to get out at, and the building stays open until about 7pm on weekdays, so you can catch it lit. Or skip height altogether and take the walk along the water in the Sumida River guide, where the tower is above you the whole way.

Skytree or Shibuya Sky?

This is an east-side site and the Skytree is ours, so take the following as an argument against our own tower where it is warranted.

The Skytree is higher and cheaper. Shibuya Sky is lower, dearer, outdoors, and has the thing you actually came to look at in the frame. At 350 metres you are above Tokyo looking at a grey plain; at Shibuya’s 229 metres you are low enough to see streets, and the rooftop is open to the sky with no glass in the photograph.

	Tokyo Skytree	Shibuya Sky
Height	350 m deck, 450 m with the Galleria	229 m
Adult, advance	from ¥1,800 (350 m) · ¥3,000 (450 m)	¥2,700 before 15:00 · ¥3,400 from 15:00
At the counter	+¥500	¥3,000 / ¥3,700 — and only if the web has not sold out
Children	free under 6	¥1,200, counter only; preschoolers free
Indoor or outdoor	Enclosed, glass	Open-air rooftop, plus an indoor gallery
Hours	See the section above	10:00–22:30, last entry 21:20
Booking window	Open well ahead	Two weeks only, from 00:00 JST

The rooftop rules nobody mentions until you are at the gate

The open rooftop is the reason to go, and it is also the part with a list of rules that catches people out. From the operator’s own page: you cannot take a bag of any kind onto the roof — not a rucksack, not a pouch — and you leave it in the lockers on the 46th floor. Also banned up there: tripods, monopods and selfie sticks; earphones and headphones; hats of any kind; food and drink; and strollers except the venue’s own loan ones. What you may carry is a phone, and a camera or binoculars either pocket-sized or on a neck strap. If what you are wearing has no pockets, the information desk will lend you a small bag to carry things in.

Two more that decide the day. The rooftop closes without notice in strong wind, rain, snow, approaching thunder, smog or extreme heat — you are then paying for the indoor gallery. And if you are late for your timed slot you may be refused entry. Large luggage is not allowed in the building at all, so use the station lockers before you come.

Which to book

One view, and you want the photograph everyone means by “Tokyo”: Shibuya Sky, booked the moment the two-week window opens, for a slot about forty minutes before sunset. Klook sells it at the official price — about US$17 for the before-15:00 adult ticket, 4.7 from over 46,000 reviews — which is worth knowing because almost everything else resold on this page is marked up.

One view, on a budget, or with small children, or on a day with weather: the Skytree. It is ¥900 cheaper at the bottom, free under six, enclosed so the weather cannot cancel it, and you can still buy at the counter. It is also the only one of the two you can walk to from the rest of this site.

When a middleman is worth it

Two cases, and only two.

• When the third party is an official channel. teamLab names Klook as an official sales site for Borderless; the Skytree and Planets both work with the big platforms as distributors. At the same price, buying where your other bookings live is a real convenience, and the cancellation terms are often softer than the operators’ own — Planets does not refund at all once you have bought.
• When the product is not a ticket. Planets plus the Toyosu fish market with a guide, about ¥22,000 for three hours, is a guided morning that happens to include admission, and the guiding is the thing you are buying. Same for the guided Skytree visit with 450m tickets included at about ¥13,000. Judge these as tours, not as tickets.

Everything else on the marketplaces in this category is the same admission with a margin on it. The tell is the listing title: if it says “Admission Ticket” and nothing else, there is nothing else.

A day that uses both

Both of the big ones are on this side of the river, so they make one day rather than two half-days.

1. 08:00, teamLab Planets, Toyosu. The first slot of the day, when the water rooms are quiet. Ninety minutes to two hours.
2. 10:30, Toyosu market for sushi at the counters, or the Yurikamome three stops back to Koto.
3. Afternoon, the river. Kiyosumi-Shirakawa for the garden and the coffee, then the Sumida walk up to the tower.
4. Dusk, the Skytree. Book a slot about forty minutes before sunset so you get the city in daylight and then lit. This is the only time the ticket is unambiguously worth ¥1,800.

What the reviews say, and what they mean

This page has the worst-reviewed products on this entire website, and it is not close. Across nine other comparisons — sushi, ramen, kintsugi, tea, crafts, kimono, food tours, workshops, rickshaws — the share of reviewers rating a listing three stars or below runs between 0.2% and 4%. Here it runs to 29% and 32%. Read on 3 October 2026, with the low reviews and the operators’ replies.

How bad the resale listings actually are

Listing	Reviews	Rated 3★ or below
Skytree admission, Deck + Galleria	745	219 (29.4%)
teamLab resale listing	47	15 (31.9%)
Another Skytree reseller	13	3 (23%)
A third reseller	9	0
Two more listings	0–1	—
For comparison, from the other articles in this series: chopstick making 2,157 reviews, 4 low (0.19%) · sushi classes 9,040 reviews, under 1% · cooking classes 2,967 reviews, 0.3%

Nearly one reviewer in three. Ninety-five people have given the Skytree listing a single star. This page already argued that buying admission through a marketplace is a bad deal on price alone. The reviews say it is also a bad deal on whether you get in.

Why: you are not buying a ticket, you are buying a voucher

The failure that recurs is mechanical. The Skytree gate needs a QR code. What the marketplace sends is a booking that has to become a QR code, and when it does not, you are standing at a turnstile with a receipt.

One April 2026 reviewer had proof of purchase for four tickets refused at the entrance, could not retrieve the code through chat support, and received it after the timed slot had passed. An August 2025 reviewer: “There is no QR Code in the order as well as in the ticket details.” Another from April 2026 simply warns not to buy on the day because the tickets do not arrive straight away.

The second recurring failure is that the slot is immovable and nothing is refunded. A September 2025 reviewer whose flight was late was refused entry and refused a refund. An April 2026 reviewer held up in traffic asked to move to the next day and was told there was no availability.

And a third, which is a labelling problem rather than a failure: three of the ten low reviews I read expected a guide. “Never saw or met up the guide, so we did it on our own,” one wrote (August 2026). There is no guide. It is an admission ticket sold in a marketplace full of tours, and people book it thinking they have bought a tour.

What this means in practice

• Buy from the operator. The official stores issue the code directly and the price is lower. For teamLab this is not merely advice: the museum’s own terms refuse entry to resold tickets, and teamLab names its official site and Klook as the only authorised sellers.
• If you have already booked through a marketplace, get the QR code into your phone the day before — not on the way to the gate. Most of the one-star reviews are people who found out at the turnstile.
• Treat the timed slot as a flight. Late is forfeited, at every seller, official included.

Which of these are made for foreigners

All of them, and that is the whole point of this page. This is the one category in this series where the gap is not a judgement call: the attraction publishes one price, in yen, that any Japanese resident pays, and the resale listings charge roughly double it to people who do not know the official store exists.

teamLab Planets is ¥4,200 official and ¥8,425 resold. Borderless is ¥3,600 and ¥9,300. The Skytree Tembo Deck is ¥1,800 in advance and ¥2,539 to ¥4,190 resold. Nobody buying in Japanese pays those numbers, because the official pages are the first result in Japanese.

There is no service inside the markup. No guide, no skip-the-queue, no transfer, no cancellation flexibility — the reviews above are the evidence of what the extra money buys, which is an additional point of failure between you and the gate. The only third party worth using is the one the operator itself names, and it sells at about the official price.

Is teamLab Planets worth the ticket price?

At the official ¥4,200, yes. At the ¥8,425 a marketplace charges, no. That is the whole answer, and it is why this page exists. The museum itself is worth two hours of anyone’s trip — you walk barefoot through water, and there is nothing else like it in Tokyo. What is not worth it is paying twice for the same ticket to a reseller who adds nothing.

And the risk is not only the money. Nearly one reviewer in three rates the resold tickets three stars or below, overwhelmingly because the QR code does not arrive in time and they are turned away at the gate. teamLab’s own terms refuse entry to resold tickets. Buy from the official store, or from Klook, which teamLab names as its only authorised third party.

Skytree is a closer call. ¥1,800 in advance for the Tembo Deck is fair for the view, and the Galleria at ¥3,000 is worth it only on a clear day — check the weather before you book a timed slot you cannot move. If it is hazy, the free observation floors at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku show you the same city for nothing.

Where this joins the rest of the east side

Both attractions sit inside the area this site covers: Koto City for Planets and Toyosu, Sumida beyond the Skytree for the tower and the ten places around it. The walk between them is the Sumida River on foot. Guided versions of the Toyosu morning are in food tours by area, the boats on the river below the tower are in the water bus and cruises guide, and the rest of what is bookable here is compared in cooking classes, the quiet crafts, kimono rental and samurai and ninja. Everything is on the Experiences page, and the area is in the east side guide.

Quick answers

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LOCAL SIDE JAPAN read the official ticket pages of teamLab Planets TOKYO, teamLab Borderless and the Tokyo Skytree, and the third-party listings quoted, on September 26, 2026, and re-checked the third-party prices on September 28, 2026. All three operators use dynamic pricing, so the figures given as “from” are floors that move with the date; check the day you want before booking. Klook prices were shown in US dollars and are quoted as displayed. Nothing was provided free by an operator.