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Name: teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Start: 2026-10-30
End: 2027-01-11
Location: Fukuoka Castle Ruins

teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins

Artworks

Pillar of Constant Flux

The artwork is strongly influenced by the environment, such as wind, rain, and humidity, significantly changing its movement and height. As long as the environment that gives rise to existence is maintained and the flow continues, the artwork’s existence is maintained even whilst it constantly changes shape.
It is continually moving, flexible, soft, and fragile.

Autonomous Resonating Life

When each ovoid is pushed over by a person or wild animal, or blown over by heavy rain or wind, it shines brightly and emits a sound tone as it rights itself. The surrounding ovoids also respond one after another, and the light color and tone continues to resonate out.

Ever Blossoming Life Tree

Flowers bloom and scatter for eternity on a giant tree. A year's worth of flowers bloom over the course of an hour, continuously scattering and changing. Flowers are born, grow, bud, bloom, and eventually scatter, wither, and disappear. The flowers are in a continuous cycle of life and death, repeating forever.

Walk, Walk, Walk - Fukuoka Castle Ruins

A group of anonymous and diverse figures walk along the stone walls of Fukuoka Castle Ruins.
Viewers will make choices, as they confront the figures.

Enso on Ancient Stone Wall

The black lines drawn with light express the absence of light, and cannot be distinguished from the shadows of the stone walls that have been weathered over the past several hundred years. The black calligraphy and the black shadows created by the long passing of time become one, infinitely drawing Enso on the stone walls.

Stone Steps of Oblivion - Fukuoka Castle Ruins

The light of each step is autonomous, shining brightly and then fading as if breathing slowly.If a person goes close to the stairs the light glows strongly and a colour and sound tone resonates out. 

The Materialization of Time

Naturally, some types of umenokigoke emit yellow and blue light in the presence of ultraviolet light, but this is not visible during the day due to the strong light from other sources.Under ultraviolet light, the vivid glow of these lichen flickers in the dark, capturing the trail of life that the old plum tree has painted for over more than half a century.

Resonating Trees

The light of the trees in this artwork responds to the continuous light from the artwork Autonomous Resonating Life, producing a tone and changing colour. That light and tone then spreads continuously, one by one, to the surrounding trees.If a wave of light comes from afar, it signifies the presence of people, waves, or wind there. People gain a heightened sense of awareness of the existence of other people in the same space and the environment.

About teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective that seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

teamLab’s works are in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra;  Amos Rex, Helsinki; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul; and Asia Society Museum, New York, among others.

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teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins 2026-2027

Term

Oct 30, 2026 - Jan 11, 2027

Hours

Oct 30 - Nov 6, 2026
18:30 - 22:00

Nov 7 - Dec 31, 2026
18:15 - 22:00

Jan 1 - Jan 11, 2027
18:30 - 22:00

* Last Entry 21:30

Access

Address

Maizuru Park, Fukuoka Castle Ruins
Jonai, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka

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By Public transportation

By Fukuoka City Subway
8 min walk from “Akasaka Station” or “Ohori Koen Station”

By Nishitetsu Bus
5 - 8 min walk from “Fukuoka-jo Korokan-mae”, “Fukuoka-shi Bijutsukan Higashi-guchi” or “Otemon & Heiwadai Rikujo Kyogijo-iriguchi” stop
10 min walk from “Akasaka 3-chome” stop

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Admission

Tickets on Sale from October 1

* On-site Purchases: +JPY 200 for Adults / +JPY 100 for Middle & High School Students and Children
* Same-day tickets will not be sold on-site if advance tickets are sold out.

Weekdays (excluding Dec. 29 - 31)

* Time-specific reservations are not required.

Adults

JPY 2,300

Middle & High School Students

JPY 1,300

Elementary Students

JPY 700

Preschool Children

Free

Weekday Pair Ticket (for 2)

Valid through November 30 (Limited Quantity)

Free

Weekends, Public holidays, and Dec. 29 - 31

* Time-specific reservations are required in advance.

Adults

JPY 2,500

Middle & High School Students

JPY 1,500

Elementary Students

JPY 900

Preschool Children

Free

Organizers

teamLab: Digitized Fukuoka Castle Ruins 2026-2027 Production Committee

Supporters

Nishi-Nippon Railroad Co., Ltd, Kyushu Railway Company, Kyushu Tourism Promotion Organization, Fukuoka International Airport Co., Ltd., Fukuoka Now Ltd.

Cooperated by

Fukuoka City