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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 3 to 9 August 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!
*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.
| Belize National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Burkina Faso National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Ukraine National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.5, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Jamaica National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.6, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| ASEAN Secretariat Special Day | |
 | 📅Aug.8, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Peru National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.9, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
The calendar of National Days and Special Days : Click here
| Nippondo Middle Festival×Osaka-kansai EXPO(TBD) | |
| 📅Aug.2-Aug.3, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
| To be decided |
| ~Osaka Week~ | |
| 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍Gallery WEST | |
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| To be announced |
| Expo Children’s Concert | |
| 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
| Enjoy the beautiful harmony created by the children of our future and the smiles that connect people and the planet. |
| EXPO GRAND SUMO TOURNAMENT(TBD) | |
| 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Ireland】 Asia’s Biggest Ceilí | |
| 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| We plan to host Asia’s biggest céilí. We plan to host a Bon Odori dance followed by a céilí with Japanese and Irish dancers from across Ireland and Asia. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance | |
| 📅Aug.3, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| hungarian music performance |
| High School Student Business Contest for Future and Health supported by Towa Phamaceutical | |
| 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| The business model competition aimed at fostering a Co-being tailored to individual needs, in collaboration with Towa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. This initiative aims to envision ‘Designing Future Society for Our Lives’ that enhances our lives and disseminate these ideas globally through engagement with visitors. |
| 【Burkina Faso】 Burkina Faso Opera Project LÀ-BAS OU ICI… | |
| 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| An opera performance with singers, choir, instrumentalists and dancers accompanied by live video projection |
| 【Poland】Poland. Heritage that drives the future. Music Show | |
| 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
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| Poland’s National Day celebrated with a music concert in the Expo Arena featuring Hania Rani – an award-winning, classically-trained pianist who often blurs the lines between what is classic and what is new. Known for experimenting within the genre of “post-classical”, Rani can be seen surrounded by a piano and several keyboards, and magically weaves together the sound of all of the instruments. |
| Sumo Connects the World! SUMO EXPO 2025 | |
| 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
| It is a special event at the 2025 World Expo, launched by municipalities across Japan with ties to sumo, where participants can learn about and experience sumo culture from Japan and around the world. |
| Martial Arts, Sounds, World | |
| 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| “武” refers to traditional cultural martial arts. “響” represents traditional cultural instruments,create a diverse range of musical expressions. The fusion of martial arts and traditional musical instruments results in a stunning visual performance. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.4, 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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.4, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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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. |
| Exhibitions and Experiences of the attractions of Hiroshima （TBC） | |
| 📅Aug.5-Aug.9, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Burkina Faso】 Sababou keiko | |
| 📅Aug.5, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| A concert by our band (6 musicians and a dancer) |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.5, 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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.5, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.5, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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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. |
| Japan Ninja Festival | |
| 📅Aug.5-Aug.14, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
| This event includes participation from full members, such as municipalities with historical connections to Ninja across Japan.The festival aims to showcase ninjas, who have evolved from mysterious figures into significant cultural icons, by blending their legacy with various modern elements. Additionally, it will provide tourism information about regions associated with ninja history. |
| World Play & Learn Summit | |
| 📅Aug.6-Aug.10, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| Through the summit, the diverse visitors feel the “rise” of life, having the experience of overcoming the world’s divisions, learning about the true value and value of collaboration and co-creation, uncovering the shining potential and value hidden in vulnerability, minorities and ethnicity, and praying for peace. |
The Children’s Conference of the Future in Support of the United Nations~ FUTURE SUMMIT~ | |
| 📅Aug.6-Aug.7, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
| To be announced |
| 【ASEAN Secretariat】 ASEAN Secretariat Presents: ASEAN Secretariat in One | |
| 📅Aug.6, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| ASEAN Presents is a 15 – 60 minutes individual or group cultural performance from each Member States on behalf of ASEAN. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.6, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.6, 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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.6, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner 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. |
| 【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance | |
| 📅Aug.6, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| hungarian music performance |
| 【Jamaica】NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION: JAMAICA TO THE WORLD CONCERT | |
| 📅Aug.6, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| Panasonic Pavilion day“Unlock Festival” | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| We will hold “Unlock Festival,” a Pavilion Day event in EXPO2025. There will be street dance performances by elementary, middle and high school students, a choir featuring employees and students, and a presentation of the results from the “nomonoco” co-creation project,” where children, students, and employees collaborate to create the pavilion “The Land of NOMO.” |
| Children’s Future Festival(TBD) | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Trinidad and Tobago】Carnival Fete and Pan Jamboree | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍Festival Station Stage | |
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| Live performances, cultural displays and musical interludes. |
| Nankin Tamasudare traditional Japanese performing art ,born and developed in Japan | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| The Nankin Tamasudare tradition group, “Nankin Tamasudare Sumiyoshi Okirakuya” show the bright and joyful Nankin Tamasudare here at the Expo venue. |
| 【European Union】 European Union peace, human security and dignity week | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| To be announced |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.7, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner 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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.7, 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. |
| Island of Light | |
| 📅Aug.8, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
 ©Tamayama Digital Tech Co., LTD | |
| A large international performance team from Taiwan is set to take the stage. Combining singing, dancing, music, live performances, and smart technology, we aim to convey the concepts we wish to express through this presentation and engage interactively with the audience. |
| 【Peru】Peru: Infinite Possibilities | |
| 📅Aug.8, 2025 📍Festival Station Stage | |
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| arts, music, shows |
| 【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance | |
| 📅Aug.8, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| hungarian music performance |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.8, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner 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. |
| 【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion | |
| 📅Aug.7, 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 | |
| 📅Aug.8, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| “Okinawa Karate, the Martial Arts of Peace” into the World | |
| 📅Aug.9, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| Okinawa karate is said to be a ”war of peace” because of its ”kata,” which begins with uke, and its teachings of respecting the lives of others and not attacking others. It will be performed on stage along with Ryukyu dance and Eisa. |
| 【Peru】 Peru National Day Celebrations | |
| 📅Aug.9, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| Cultural Program including shows and arts celebrating Peru’s National Day. |
| 【Viet Nam】 Viet Nam traditional art performance | |
| 📅Aug.9, 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 |
| 【Canada】 Canada LIVE! presents: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples | |
| 📅Aug.9 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Canada will commemorate this important day with a performance, and you are invited to join us. More information will be shared soon. |
| 【Canada】 Canada LIVE! presents: International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples | |
| 📅Aug.9, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East | |
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| August 9 is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. Canada will commemorate this important day with a performance, and you are invited to join us. More information will be shared soon. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Aug.9, 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. |