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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 13 to 19 July 2025.
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.
| ITER Special Day | |
 | 📅Jul.13, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Mauritius National Day | |
 | 📅Jul.14, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Equatorial Guinea National Day | |
 | 📅Jul.15, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Zimbabwe National Day | |
 | 📅Jul.16, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Malta National Day | |
 | 📅Jul.17, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| United States of America National Day | |
 | 📅Jul.19, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” |
The calendar of National Days and Special Days : Click here
| 【Saudi Arabia】 Saudi Arabia Roadshow | |
| 📅Jul.8-Jul.17, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| Manga / Ainme Exhibition |
| 【Poland】 A Week of Polish Dance & Music Week | |
| 📅Jul.10-Jul.16, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
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| Every day will be dedicated to the different type of Polish dance. Performances will be presented enriched with audiovisual presentations, dance lessons. During the breaks, while not dancing at the moment, audiovisual presentation will be still possible to visit. |
| 【Poland】 A Week of Polish Dance & Music Week | |
| 📅Jul.10-Jul.16, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| Every day will be dedicated to the different type of Polish dance. Performances will be presented enriched with audiovisual presentations, dance lessons. During the breaks, while not dancing at the moment, audiovisual presentation will be still possible to visit. |
| Exhibition of Niigata products | |
| 📅Jul.12-Jul.16, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
| To be announced |
| The world of Nohgaku, connecting to the future | |
| 📅Jul.13-Jul.14, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| This project will help you learn more about Japan and love it even more by taking a step into the world of Nohgaku, which has been woven together continuously for 700 years. |
| 1000people taiko(Japanese drum)performance | |
| 📅Jul.13, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
 NipponTaikoFoundation | |
| We will be hosting a special joint concert by approximately 1,000 taiko drummers. Diversity of performers will share the appeal of taiko, a traditional Japanese culture, to people in Japan and abroad through their original compositions. Please come and feel the power of taiko up close. |
| Future Creation Robot Week | |
| 📅Jul.13-Jul.19, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| Following the theme of Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, “Designing a Future Society that Shines with Life,” robots will be used to connect Japan’s world-class manufacturing and hospitality services to the future, exhibiting concepts for creating a sustainable and prosperous society. |
| Sing, dance, feel the culture and enjoy the Expo with Stardust-Kawachi! | |
| 📅Jul.13, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
 Stardust-Kawachi | |
| Experience “Kawachi Ondo” and “Goshu Ondo” dance at Bon Odori sites in Osaka, “Tankobushi” and “Donpanbushi” dance at Bon Odori sites nationwide, and Bon Odori with famous local Ondo such as “Awa Odori”, “Gujo Odori”, “Dancing Hero” and “Paprika” and J-POP dance in Japan in 2025. |
| Let’s play Angklung together! The sound of bamboo in your heart | |
| 📅Jul.13, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| Connecting people, Connecting and continueing time, Connecting and expanding the world by the performance of The Angklung, World Heritage Site Let’s play the Angklung together. Fun for everyone from children to adults |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Jul.13, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stagae 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 | |
| 📅Jul.13, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【France】 Bastille Day | |
| 📅Jul.14, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Mauritius】National Day/Independence Day | |
| 📅Jul.14, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| Cultural Events |
| 【Chile】 Chile, Event 4 | |
| 📅Jul.15-Jul.17, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| music, cooking, dance,etc. |
| 【Zimbabwe】 Zimbabwe Business Forum | |
| 📅Jul.16, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| This business-focused event will be held to further promote tourism, trade and investment opportunities in Zimbabwe to participants from across the world. Industry experts and Government representatives will present tourism, investment, and trade prospects as well as share information on economic policies, and incentives. |
| Dinosaur Kingdom FUKUI DAY | |
| 📅Jul.16, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| To be announced |
| The Gift for the Future “Safety, Health & Well-being for All” | |
| 📅Jul.17-Jul.18, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| ・Hands-on experience and solutions for Well-being for all global citizens. ・Passionate and engaging discussions regarding the future of work by young people from every corners of the globe. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Jul.17, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| Life in 2075 | |
| 📅Jul.18-Jul.22, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
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| An exhibition on life in 2075, created together with 7 co-creation companies among the sponsors of the Pavilion |
| 【Romania】Bucharest National Opera House Orchestra | |
| 📅Jul.18, 2025 📍Festival Station (stage) | |
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| The repertoire of the Professional Folk ensemble consists of dances from the most representative folk areas of Romania and also of the Saxon, Gipsy, Hungarian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian and Italian communities and during the concert. They will put on stage old-time customs in connection to life: birth, wedding and funeral, and work: shepherding, harvesting, viniculture, all accessorized with the proper traditional tools and objects. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Jul.18, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Korea】The Ultimate Brain Battle: Humans vs. AI Quiz Showdown | |
| 📅Jul.18-Jul.20, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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| Experience Program of Quiz Showdown between Humans and AI Utilizing AI Technology |
| DIGITAL GAKUENSAI | |
| 📅Jul.19-Jul.21, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| DIGITAL GAKUENSAI (The Digital School Festival) is the first national competition for students involved in programming and digital art activities. |
| doring the adjustment | |
| 📅Jul.19, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
| ・Introducing the Steps for Revitalization through Hope Tourism ・Sampling of agricultural, forestry, fishery and other local products from Fukushima |
| 【Viet Nam】 Viet Nam traditional art performance | |
| 📅Jul.19, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| The most beautiful and unique traditional music of Viet Nam performed by the outstanding musical troupe |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Jul.19, 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~（ 18:40 Open ）②20:30~（ 20:00 Open ） 【May-August】①19:30 ~ （ 19:00 Open ）②20:30~ （ 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. |