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 22 to 28 June 2025. Reservations for visit dates and times can be made from 22 to 28 December 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.
Suriname National Day | |
📅Jun.22, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
International Solar Alliance Special Day | |
📅Jun.23, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
Kenya National Day | |
📅Jun.24, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
Nigeria National Day | |
📅Jun.25, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
Romania National Day | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
Tajikistan National Day | |
📅Jun.27, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
Monaco National Day | |
📅Jun.28, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
The calendar of National Days and Special Days : Click here
【Brazil】 Brazil and the Brazilian Amazon | |
📅Jun.18-Jun.24, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
Special exhibition about Brazil and the Brazilian Amazon |
【Belgium】Flemish Week | |
📅Jun.20-Jun.22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
Concert, show, performance, etc. |
Undiscovered Gems of Japan Festa | |
📅Jun.20-Jun.23, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
To be announced |
HEALTH DESIGN Live Brighter | |
📅Jun.21-Jun.29, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
In a future where people and technology coexist, advanced technologies will expand the potential of the human body, transform the concept of “living,” and bring us new hope. We aim to lead the world in presenting this vision of a future where everyone can live life to the fullest through health and medical exhibitions and events. |
【Belgium】Flemish Week | |
📅Jun.22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
Concert, show, performance, etc. |
EO ONE WORLD DAY | |
📅Jun.22, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
Diverse youth and children from all over the world gather here to take the “Step to Create the Future”. We entrepreneurs will pass on the experiences of our predecessors and together we will create the future. That is what EO One World Day is all about. |
Cnnecting to the Future:The Japanese Spirit-Doyo(Japanese nersery rhymes) | |
📅Jun.22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
Japanese nersery rhymes are a part of represents Japanese culture. Feel the four seasons, beautiful Japanese language and emotion through the songs performed by Klavier Klasse Conservatory students and their families. Let’s sing to the next generation to the world. |
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
📅Jun.22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
【Korea】The 60th anniversary of Korea-Japan diplomatic relations normalization. | |
📅Jun.22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
A commemorative event featuring performances and activities that highlight the shared culture of Korea and Japan |
Effective stretching exercises for people of all ages and genders | |
📅Jun.23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
Let’s refresh our mind and body with stretching exercises! This is a stretching session that anyone can easily do on the spot, regardless of age, genders, and with any outfit. |
World Diaper EXPO presented by Dream Investment JAPAN | |
📅Jun.24, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
This event will feature a combination of talk shows and fashion shows centered around the theme of diapers. It is designed to be an inclusive event where people from various backgrounds, including different races, body types, ages, beliefs, and physical conditions, can participate and enjoy, viewing diapers as a personal matter. |
【Ireland】 First Ever Asia Fleadh Ceoil | |
📅Jun.25, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
EXPO 2025 will host the World’s first Asian Fleadh, with musicians from Japan, China and Korea. We will invite the winners from the Féile Tokyo and other regional Féile to do a concert for EXPO 2025. |
【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
📅Jun.25, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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. |
LaLaLaYosakoi | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
LaLaLaYosakoi | |
The Yosakoi Festival is authentic in Kochi. If you also have a naruko and dance to the song of Yosakoi Bushi, you will be a “Odoriko”.Music transcends borders, dance transcends emotional barriers, and connects hearts with dancers from around the world.”Let’s feel the culture of Japan and dance together.” |
LaLaLaYosakoi | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
LaLaLaYosakoi | |
The Yosakoi Festival is authentic in Kochi. If you also have a naruko and dance to the song of Yosakoi Bushi, you will be a “Odoriko”.Music transcends borders, dance transcends emotional barriers, and connects hearts with dancers from around the world.”Let’s feel the culture of Japan and dance together.” |
inochi’s Pay It Forward Week | |
📅Jun.26-Jun.30, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
We hope that the process of bringing together young people from all over the world for five days to experience, acknowledge, and discuss each other’s views on life and death, and to create actions for the future, will create a chain of “compassion” and make “inochi’s Pay It Forward” a major step forward as a legacy of the Expo. |
Cords of life, leading the future(TBD) | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
©Human Life CORD Japan Inc.(TBD) | |
The cells of the umbilical cord, which are connected from our ancestors, maintain health, save lives, and lead to a hopeful future. We would like to spread the umbilical coard from Japan to the world. This is a fun stage where you can sing, dance, get closer to the world of cells, and think about the cords of life. (TBD) |
LaLaLaYosakoi | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
LaLaLaYosakoi | |
The Yosakoi Festival is authentic in Kochi. If you also have a naruko and dance to the song of Yosakoi Bushi, you will be a “Odoriko”.Music transcends borders, dance transcends emotional barriers, and connects hearts with dancers from around the world.”Let’s feel the culture of Japan and dance together.” |
【European Union】 European Union health and well-being | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
To be announced |
【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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. |
【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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 | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
【Romania】Symphony Orchestra “George Enescu” Philharmonic | |
📅Jun.26, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
・The “George Enescu” Philharmonic is the representative musical institution of Romania. Founded in April 1868, the “Romanian Philharmonic Society”, aims to realize a permanent connection with the public,to propagate musical culture and popularizing classical music masterpieces. ・only web streaming, content the same as for the real venue |
ETERNAL Art Space | |
📅Jun.27, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
We will present a cutting-edge immersive audiovisual showcase by ETERNAL Art Space,a pioneer in providing innovative art experiences, at the EXPO hall. |
I share the hope to the future of Tochigi with visitors. | |
📅Jun.27-Jun.29, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
currently in progress. |
Sushi.Now that’s Toyama.(working title) | |
📅Jun.27-Jun.29, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
We will use sushi as a gateway to promote the attractions of Toyama Prefecture, including its abundant nature, food, culture, and traditional crafts (the foundation of our well-being). |
(temporary name)Digital Health Startups Support Project | |
📅Jun.27-Jun.29, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
To be announced |
【Canada】 CANADA Scene – Multiculturalism Day | |
📅Jun.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
June 27 is Multiculturalism Day in Canada! Come celebrate with us and discover Canada’s diversity and creativity. More information to be shared soon. This event is presented as part of “Canada Week” at Expo 2025 (June 21-July 1)! |
【Canada】 CANADA Scene – Multiculturalism Day | |
📅Jun.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
June 27 is Multiculturalism Day in Canada! Come celebrate with us and discover Canada’s diversity and creativity. More information to be shared soon. This event is presented as part of “Canada Week” at Expo 2025 (June 21-July 1)! |
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
📅Jun.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
【Democratic Republic of the Congo】Visit DRcongo | |
📅Jun.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
To be announced |
meta-yose~Japanese RAKUGO culture~ | |
📅Jun.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
Japanese RAKUGO |
【Viet Nam】 Viet Nam traditional art performance | |
📅Jun.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
The most beautiful and unique traditional music of Viet Nam performed by the outstanding musical troupe |
【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
📅Jun.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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 | |
📅Jun.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
【Monaco】1) Orchestre des Carabiniers du Prince 2) Académie Princesse Grace | |
📅Jun.28, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
Ballet-dance performance by the Académie Princesse Grace. The performance will offer a fresh take on this traditional dance and infuses classical dance with new perspectives. |
A Spectacular Show of Water and Air “Under the Midnight Rainbow” | |
📅Every Day 【April, September, October】①19:10~( 18:40 Open )②20:30~( 20:00 Open ) 【May-August】①19:30 ~ ( 19:00 Open )②20:30~ ( 20:00 Open ) 📍Signature Zone Water Plaza | |
“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 | |
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 | |
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. |