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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 24 to 30 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.
| Singapore National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.24, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Senegal National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.25, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Liberia National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.26, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| International Science and Technology Center Special Day | |
 | 📅Aug.27, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Timor-Leste National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.28, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Benin National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.29, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
| Saint Lucia National Day | |
 | 📅Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” |
The calendar of National Days and Special Days : Click here
| AICHI・NAGOYA Festa in EXPO | |
| 📅Aug.22-Aug.24, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| We will hold exhibitions for the purpose of inheriting and developing the philosophy of Expo 2005 Aichi, promoting the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, and introducing the appeal of Aichi-Nagoya. |
| Experience the charm of Yamanashi in its entirety! High-Quality Yamanashi Fest | |
| 📅Aug.22-Aug.24, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
| 1.Introducing the charms of “Yamanashi”, where you can enjoy a high-quality environment and high-quality experiences. 2.Introducing the Innovative Initiatives of “Yamanashi” that continues to take on challenges. |
| Momotaro’ｓ Summer Vacation | |
| 📅Aug.22-Aug.24, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| In this event, children can learn more about Okayama Prefecture, home of the tale of Momotaro, while enjoying games and local fruit. |
| Exhibition of Japanese Traditional Crafts | |
| 📅Aug.22-Aug.24, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
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| You can experience the charm of traditional crafts that have been made for generations in Japan. These events will include exhibitions and demonstrations from various industries, hands-on workshops, and opportunities to experience using traditional crafts. |
| “Let’s Dive into an Exploration with QuizKnock! We’ll Solve Your Questions!!” | |
| 📅Aug.24, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri” | |
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| This stage is where QuizKnock explores the ‘questions you’d like answered’ that we’ve received from you beforehand. Let’s work together to solve them through experiments and expert insights! |
| Realizing Society 5.0 Through Developing Digital Lifeline | |
| 📅Aug.24-Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| We will implement experiential exhibits, related to CAV(Connected Autonomous Vehicles), UAS(Urban Aircraft System), digital transformation of infrastructure management and smart building, based on “Digital Lifeline Development Plan,” allowing visitors to experience a Society 5.0, a society where system of cyberspace and physical space are highly integrated, realized through “Ouranos Ecosystem.” |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Aug.24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Chile】 Chile, Event 10 | |
| 📅Aug.25-Aug.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West | |
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| music, cooking, dance,etc. |
| XROBOCON | |
| 📅Aug.26-Aug.27, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| “XROBOCON” is a next-generation competition that combines robots, AI, and games to overturn conventional wisdom of sports! ” Traditional sumo, a cornerstone of cultural heritage of Japan, evolves with cutting-edge technology, delivering a dynamic battle between robots and avatars that captivates the audience. |
| 【ASEAN Secretariat】 ASEAN Secretariat Presents: Singapore | |
| 📅Aug.26, 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. |
| Ishikawa’s Food Culture Responds to the Values of a New Age | |
| 📅Aug.27-Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
| To be announced |
| Go Nature. Go Nagano. | |
| 📅Aug.27-Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
| To be announced |
| Discover the Golden Route of West Japan. | |
| 📅Aug.27-Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE” | |
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| In Western Japan and Kyushu there are plenty of wonderful experiences that are just waiting to be discovered. In this event, art, history, and cuisine of the diverse areas that comprise this region will come together for your enjoyment. With a guide map made for the occasion in hand, take the first step on an adventure of discovery in the Western Japan and Kyushu region. |
| Shimane Prefecture Booth (tentative) | |
| 📅Aug.27-Aug.31, 2025 📍Gallery EAST | |
| The diverse charms of Shimane Prefecture will be conveyed through exhibitions and traditional performing arts performances. |
| 【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance | |
| 📅Aug.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| hungarian music performance |
| 【Timor-Leste】Blank | |
| 📅Aug.28, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| Culture and music performances |
| Kantele Sports Presents Gachi-Dance2025 in the Osaka-Kansai Japan Expo | |
| 📅Aug.28, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| This is a dance showcase of various genres by junior high and high school students. |
| 【Poland】Czułe Struny – concert of the famous Polish pop singer Natalia Kukulska with the orchestra playing and singing Fryderyk Chopin Music | |
| 📅Aug.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| The Warsaw Philharmonic – The National Orchestra and Choir of Poland will return to Japan this time with the amazing singer Natalia Kukulska. It was through such musical exploration that the vocalist encountered Fryderyk Chopin and set out to create lyrics for the Chopin music known to all and name the emotions that flow from it in her own way. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Aug.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Benin】Benin National Day Events | |
| 📅Aug.29, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| 2 artistic performances with Pépit’Arts and the Arts Ca’Danser company3 keynotes: Vodun, the new Country Brand, and the Dahomey documentary |
| 【Poland】The “Tender Strings” concert by Natalia Kukulska with the National Philharmonic Orchestra | |
| 📅Aug.29, 2025 📍Festival Station Stage | |
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| “Tender Strings” is the largest artistic production in the Polish music market, as well as an unprecedented event worldwide. The works of Fryderyk Chopin have been arranged for the first time as symphonic pieces with newly created lyrics. |
| 【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia | |
| 📅Aug.29, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North | |
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| Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances |
| 【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance | |
| 📅Aug.29-Aug.30, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East | |
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| hungarian music performance |
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| 📅Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat” | |
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| This is a music event produced by Yoichi OCHIAI. |
| 【Saint Lucia】 Saint Lucia National Day Concert | |
| 📅Aug.30, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden” | |
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| Live presentation of dance, music, stage play showcasing Saint Lucian culture and Heritage |
| 【Viet Nam】 Viet Nam traditional art performance | |
| 📅Aug.30, 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 | |
| 📅Aug.30, 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. |