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You can finally start to ‘Book a visit date and time’ from 13 October.
This article provides a weekly round-up of events, highlighting information on the week when booking begins for visit dates and times.
Applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis starting six months before the desired visit date.
This issue of the newsletter introduces events scheduled to take place at the various event facilities at the Yumeshima venue from 18 to 24 May 2025. Reservations for visit dates and times can be made from 17 to 23 November 2024.
Please refer to the event information below to consider the dates of your visit and book your ‘visit date and time’ at your earliest convenience!
Advance tickets are also available for sale, including “First-Half Period Tickets” (valid for one entry from the opening day to 18 July), which can be used during the first half of the Expo period.
*Booking a visit date and time is required before visiting the Expo. For details on how to book a visit date and time, please click here.
*Please note that event titles and content are those currently planned and are subject to change without notice.
*Some events require advance booking. Further details will be announced from winter 2024 as they become available.
| Bulgaria National Day | |
 | 📅May 18, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Paraguay National Day | |
 | 📅May 19, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Latvia National Day | |
 | 📅May 20, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Netherlands National Day | |
 | 📅May 21, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland National Day | |
 | 📅May 22, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Austria National Day | |
 | 📅May 23, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Hungary National Day | |
 | 📅May 24, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
The calendar of National Days and Special Days : Click here
| 【Osaka Week～Spring～】Traditional culture, Entertainment/Art/Exhibition and experience of crafts | |
| 📅May 10-May 18, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
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| We will hold exhibition and hands-on events of traditional culture, entertainments, arts, and crafts of Osaka. (TBA) |
| 【Osaka Week～Spring～】Traditional culture, Entertainment | |
| 📅May 10-May 18, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| We will hold events of traditional culture and entertainments of Osaka, etc! (TBA) |
| Maki Fujimura & Chereste F Mercles, A Cappella Concert | |
| 📅May 17-May 18, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
 ©Vo.Maki Fujimara・Misaki・Hiroko・Yusuke・Kazumi・Seiji | |
| A Supreme A Cappella Stage The six-member professional vocal group, led by Maki Fujimura—hailed as a “vocalist from another dimension, revolutionizing the jazz vocal scene”—presents an extraordinary a cappella performance. |
| 【Uzbekistan】 Cultural concert and entertainment event | |
| 📅May 18, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| A cultural and concert program is planned with performances by artists, musicians and other performers. The event will include a theatrical concert performance, a musical performance, and an audiovisual performance. |
| 【Osaka Week～Spring～】KANSAI Medical University’s Challenge for the near future | |
| 📅May 18, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
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| Kansai Medical University will introduce their unique initiatives such as photoimmunotherapy and new drug development in the field of oncology, practical application of the sensory medicine discovery technologies that activates an immune function using odor components, personalized medicine based on genome information, and regenerative medicine using induced pluripotent stem (ips) cells. An experience-based exhibition is also going to be prepared. |
| “Traditional Japanese Performing Arts EXPO” Co-creation of the future by high sc | |
| 📅May 18, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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| Award-winning high school students from all over the country will perform traditional performing arts that convey the history and culture of the region and will create a future where “life shines brightly” with their powerful performances. The Akitakata Kagurakyogikai in Hiroshima will also make a special appearance and perform with the young people who will lead the future. |
| Timeless | |
| 📅May 18, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
 Setsu Fukushima and Nagisa | |
| The parent-child unit “Setsu Fukushima and Nagisa” featuring a father born in the Showa era and a daughter raised in the Reiwa era, expresses “the changing times and the universality within them” through their music. Their live performance begins with ancient Japanese poetry, moves through the Showa-era songs from the time of the 1970 World Expo, and is themed around the upcoming 2025 World Expo. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅May 18, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Paraguay】Paraguay, Living festivities at the land of no evil | |
| 📅May 19, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| A celebration with artistic performances, live music and a light show |
| A Better Reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake | |
| 📅May 19-May 24, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
 Reconstruction Agency | |
| We will hold exhibits on the reconstruction of disaster areas aimed at a future society. Please come and experience an exhibition that “connects” the various thoughts and actions of people involved in the disaster-affected areas and “continues” into the future of the disaster-affected areas. The date is under adjusted and to be held sometime during the week. |
| EXPO2025 OSAKA KANSAI JAPAN BONSAI・SUISEKI EXHIBITION | |
| 📅May 19-May 22, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| We will be exhibiting a wide variety of Japanese bonsai. On the day, we will not only be exhibiting bonsai, but also holding professional explanations and demonstrations. |
| 【Netherlands】 Common Ground in Arts and Crafts | |
| 📅May 19-May 25, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
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| An exhibition/overview of collaborations in Japanese and Dutch arts and crafts. |
| ”Wa-shoi” at the EXPO ! Enjoy the WADAIKO ! | |
| 📅May 19-May 20, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| We will deliver the sound of WADAIKO, which is the traditional culture of Japan, to people all over the world! The powerful sound of WADAIKO, the sound of SHINOBUE and NARIMONO unique to Japan, and traditional performances from all over Japan will be delivered to people in each country. |
| 【Paraguay】 Ikigai Paraguay, energy that connects | |
| 📅May 19, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North, Pop-Up Stage Inner East, Pop-Up Stage West, Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| Live music、Live music and dance、Demonstration of Paraguayan Folkloric Dances:”Baile de la Botella, cántaro, canasto” |
| 【Latvia】 Latvia National Day | |
| 📅May 20, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| Latvia National Day |
| New Sensory Experiences through the Fusion of Virtual and Physical Space | |
| 📅May 20-May 24, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
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| Develop a spatial experience device that combines an HMD that provides an immersive VR experience and a chair that allows visitors to experience vibration and gravity. Integrate 3D city models (PLATEAU) and 3D models of the Expo site to provide visitors with a new driving experience that moves between virtual and physical spaces. |
| Brief showcase on reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake（tentative） | |
| 📅May 20, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
| Stage events such as performances and talk sessions by people associated with the Fukushima Hamadori area will be held. |
| Niihama Taiko Festival | |
| 📅May 21, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
 Niihama Tourism and Products Association | |
| Taikodai performs a powerful performance. You can experience being a bearer. Share your exciting feelings with people all over the world. |
| English Rakugo Experience | |
| 📅May 21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| We will introduce Japan’s proud culture of laughter, Rakugo and short stories, in English so that they can be understood by people all over the world. We will have participants imitate the performers and perform short stories in English or translate them into the language of their own country, to make people laugh. We will also play the shamisen, which is essential to Rakugo, and perform Nanjing Tamasudare. |
| Japanese hair culture stage show | |
| 📅May 21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| A hair designer appears on stage with a model. Expressing Japanese culture on stage and transmitting it to the world. |
| 【Oman】 Omani Rhythms: A Cultural Journey | |
| 📅May 21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East, Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Introduce visitors to Omani folk music and dance performance |
| 【Chile】 Chile, Event 7 | |
| 📅May 21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| music, cooking, dance, etc. |
| 【Canada】 CANADA Scene – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅May 21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| Canada will present a vibrant cultural program at Expo 2025 Osaka to showcase our country’s diversity and creativity. More information on Canada’s performances will be shared soon. |
| 【United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland】 National Day | |
| 📅May 22, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”, EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”, EXPO Arena “Matsuri”, Pop-Up Stage South, Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Chile】 Chile, Event 7 | |
| 📅May 22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| music, cooking, dance, etc. |
| 【European Union】 European Union future of community and mobility | |
| 📅May 22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Canada】 CANADA Scene – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅May 22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Canada will present a vibrant cultural program at Expo 2025 Osaka to showcase our country’s diversity and creativity. More information on Canada’s performances will be shared soon. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅May 22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Austria】 Concert of the Vienna Boys’ Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) | |
| 📅May 23, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
 ©www.lukasbeck.com | |
| Concert of the Vienna Boys’ Choir (Wiener Sängerknaben) with Piano |
| 【Brazil】 Flying car | |
| 📅May 23-May 25, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
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| Presentation of the eVTOL, the fully electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft manufactured in Brazil by Embraer and partners. Debates about the future mobility could take place with specialists. |
| What is wasshoi? | |
| 📅May 23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| Ohayashi performances liven up the Ikutama Summer Festival |
| 【Poland】 Małopolska Region: traditional regional music concert | |
| 📅May 23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| Małopolska regional music concerts |
| 【Chile】 Chile, Event 7 | |
| 📅May 23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| music, cooking, dance, etc. |
| 【Canada】 CANADA Scene – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅May 23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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| Canada will present a vibrant cultural program at Expo 2025 Osaka to showcase our country’s diversity and creativity. More information on Canada’s performances will be shared soon. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅May 23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| NTT Day CHO-KABUKI Powered by IOWN『HANAKURABESENBONZAKURA Expo2025 ver.』 | |
| 📅May 24-May 25, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| Inspired by the world view of the classic Kabuki play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura and Hatsune Miku’s signature song Senbonzakura, this one-of-a-kind entertainment work was premiered in 2016 and is a monument to Cho-Kabuki, combining the beautiful aesthetic of Kabuki with NTT’s cutting-edge technology. We hope you enjoy a modern and unique style of Cho-Kabuki that transcends Kabuki. |
| 【Poland】 Piano concert of the winners of the Fryderyk Chopin Music Competition | |
| 📅May 24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| On the occasion of the presentation of the Malopolska Region, a joint concert of the winners of the Fryderyk Chopin Music Competition – Jakub Kuszlik (Poland) and Aimi Kobayashi (Japan) – winners of the 4th place ex aequo. |
| Yaeyama Eisa group TORIKAJI | |
| 📅May 24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| Okinawan traditional dance called Eisa.It’s consist of Sanshin,Taiko,dance and Chondara doing a humorous dance.At the end,everyone will dance together. |
| ”ART MEETS SCIENCE EXPO 2025” | |
| 📅May 24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
| Experimental Art Show by Human nature and AI Science Technology |
| 【Canada】 CANADA Scene – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅May 24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| Canada will present a vibrant cultural program at Expo 2025 Osaka to showcase our country’s diversity and creativity. More information on Canada’s performances will be shared soon. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅May 24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| A Spectacular Show of Water and Air “Under the Midnight Rainbow” | |
| 📅Every Day 【April, September, October】①19:10 Start （ 18:40 Open ）②20:30 Start （ 20:00 Open ） 【May-August】①19:30 Start （ 19:00 Open ）②20:30 Start （ 20:00 Open ） 📍Signature Zone Water Plaza | |
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| “Under the Midnight Rainbow” is spectacular show that themed of “water and air” performed at “Water Plaza” which is symbolic area of the Expo. With approximately 300 fountains and water screen decorate the show. Furthermore, operating with the various devices such as music, laser, fire to create the stage. Please enjoy the spectacular entertainment show created with these resonate. Show is approx. 20 minutes. |
| One World,One Planet | |
| 📅Held every day after sunset during the Expo | |
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| A moment of hope connecting from all over the world, where the sound and video equipment of the entire venue, as well as visitors’ devices held, interlock and light up like the cells of a single large living creature. |
| EXPO SAUNA ‘TAIYO’s TSUBOMI’ | |
| 📅Every day *The schedule of the event may be changed suddenly due to maintenance of the sauna room. 📍Future Life Zone | |
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| This sauna provides a completely new ‘co-creation’ space that embodies a ‘soft and warm’ future society, where the space covered with ETFE film* membrane material that transmits natural light is beautifully illuminated by LEDs and harmonises with the nature of Osaka Bay, which changes with the seasons and time. *ETFE film: high-performance fluoropolymer rolled into film form. It is attracting attention as a material that can replace glass for new architectural expression. |