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TeamLab Planets helps its guests to void their minds and fill the void with sensual experiences. Every nook and cranny of the place, every square millimeter of the interactive exhibition helps to enhance and sharpen the senses

While "exclusivity" and "quantity" fail to shed the light on that in-heaven-made-marriage between Japan and technology, two other words might be more successful in doing so.

The Trick Art takes it to the next level by inviting its guests to step into the pictures thus turning from spectators into participants.

Most Japanese foundational cultural traditions are emphatically non-utilitarian, sword making being the only exception. Hanami, ikebana, origami - all of them draw inspiration from Nature to create and/or celebrate Beauty.

The innate magic of fire - the most aggressive and immediate of the Five Elements - that alternately overwhelms and hypnotizes people is what must be responsible for Omizutori's never abating popularity spanning well over a millennium.

“Naramachi” literally translates as “Nara Town”, and it's a Japanese version of an Open-Air Museum, “Japanese” being equivalent to “original”.

It's that uncanny objectivity - in a situation that is screaming for anything but - that turns the Diary Exhibition into the most stunning and overwhelming experience of the whole Memorial Park.

Time, combined with modern technology, has ultimately put physical distance to shame and rendered it almost insignificant. Psychological distance between different peoples is gradually being subjected to the same fate

It's one thing to look at incomprehensible kanji and try to memorize their arbitrarily assigned sounds and meanings, it's quite another to be given a brush and an inkpot, and to be shown how to apply the brush to a piece of high-quality paper.