【Book a date and time for your visit to the Expo!!】Introducing events from 21-27 September!
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2025.03.21【Book a date and time for your visit to the Expo!!】Introducing events from 21-27 September!
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 21 to 27 September 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.
National Day and Special Day👇
Croatia National Day
📅Sep.21, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Saudi Arabia National Day
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines National Day
📅Sep.24, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Fiji National Day
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Slovenia National Day
📅Sep.26, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Sri Lanka National Day
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
The calendar of National Days and Special Days : Click here
①”Japan’s Actions toward nature Positive by 2030″, there are panel exhibitions and films on the subject. ②”Project to Fully enjoy National Parks” showcase the attractions of National Parks of Japan through the exhibitions and films of the previous case.
PEACE DAY2025＠Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
📅Sep.21, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”
September 21st is the “International Day of Peace,” also known as “Peace Day.” To commemorate this day, we will hold a special event for “PEACE DAY”!
New Sensation of Healing Music Space “Healing Jazz Supplement”
📅Sep.21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Performed by TOT³
Music concert with professional live music perfectly synchronized with the video.Original music based on Japanese culture experience the feeling of watching a movie.
【Oman】 Harmonious Horizons: Oman And The World
📅Sep.21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North
“Harmonious Horizons: Oman And The World” is a show that’s suitable for families and audiences of all ages who are looking for a soul-stirring performance.
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East
Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances
Around the world in eighty minutes
📅Sep.21, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East
An experiential live tour around the world with national anthem x classical x folk music x drums x pop music
You can enjoy rhythm, music, preformance from all over the world, for example, immersive music world trip with National Anthem Juke Boxer KENT, Piano performers MAY & YUTA, and Afghan flutist JAMSID.
【Canada】Canada LIVE! – Cultural Performance Presented by the Canada Pavilion
📅Sep.21, 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
📅Sep.22-Sep.24, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”
Multi-disciplined theatre perormance showcasing performing arts and culture from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
MIE FESTIVAL in EXPO
📅Sep.22, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri”
To be announced
Hydrogen Week
📅Sep.22-Sep.25, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE”
Multiple booths will be set up within the Expo Messe, and various events will be held at each booth where visitors can experience hydrogen utilization technology and experience its safety , usefulness and promising.
Cyber-JP Week English Rakugo by Katsura Fukuryu
📅Sep.22, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Katura Fukuryu
Rakugo, Japan’s proud art form of “monologue” and “laughter,” will be performed in English.The performer is Canadian Rakugo performer Katsura Fukuryu. (The front of the house is SanQ, an amateur Indian Rakugo performer.)
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia National Day Event
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia National Day Event
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri”
Live concert event enhancing awareness of Saudi Arabian talent and culture and celebrating KSA National Day
Grand Design to realize Circular Economy
📅Sep.23-Sep.29, 2025 📍EXPO Exhibition Center “WASSE”
The exhibition and events will include advanced efforts to realize a circular economy, CO2 capture technology, and the actual amount of plastic discharged into the environment and its impact on biological and ecological systems, etc.
GREEN×EXPO 2027 Exhibition, Japanese Flower Culture exhibition for the Future
📅Sep.23-Sep.27, 2025 📍Gallery EAST
The International Horticultural Exposition 2027, Yokohama (GREEN×EXPO 2027) is introduced and works of Ikebana and bonsai representing Japanese floral culture are exhibited.
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
KSA National Day – Cultural/ Contemporary Performance
Cyber-JP Week 【Taishu Engeki Koikawa Jun】presented by Gofukuza
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
It will represent a new future for Japan’s proud traditional performing art, “Taishu Engeki” popular theater.
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North
KSA National Day – Cultural/ Contemporary Performance
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East
The event invites visitors to embark on a vibrant musical journey that spans the Kingdom’s rich history and modern aspirations. This captivating program celebrates the fusion of traditional sounds and contemporary beats, showcasing the cultural evolution that defines Saudi Arabia.
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.23, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East
KSA National Day – Cultural/ Contemporary Performance
【Saint Vincent and the Grenadines】（TBD）
📅Sep.24, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Musical and Dance event
Cyber-JP Week “Gospel in Bunraku”
📅Sep.24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Cyber-JP
The life of Christ presented through Bunraku
【Poland】The Hat’ Spectacle
📅Sep.24-Sep.25, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East
The performance ‘The Hat’ draws the viewer into a seance of memory that allows one to penetrate the hidden meaning of the old, the past, the not fully realised.
【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance
📅Sep.24, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East
hungarian music performance
【Austria】Festive Concert – Camerata (Salzburg)
📅Sep.24, 2025 📍Festival Station (Indoor event space)
Orchestra Concert
Learn about climate change with anime! “Future Kid Takara” Premier screening
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”
ⒸFuture Kid Takara Production Committee
This event is a premiere screening of “Future Kid Takara,” an original educational tool using animation that allows you to have fun learning about global warming. There will also be talk shows by popular voice actors and mini-concerts of theme songs.
【Fiji】Cultural Performance – Veivakamarautaki
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Fiji’s Traditional Cultural Showcase, Sustainable Tourism Solutions, Climate change resilience, Blue Economy Innovation are showcasing.
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Reoccuring and varied Saudi contemporary/ cultural performances
Cyber-JP Week English Rakugo
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Cyber-JP
Rakugo, Japan’s proud art form of “monologue” and “laughter,” will be performed in English.
【European Union】 European Union future of earth and biodiversity
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West
To be announced
【Austria】The Sound of Music – Salzburg Marionette Theater (Austria)
📅Sep.25, 2025 📍Festival Station (Indoor event space)
Based on the original Broadway musical, the Salzburg Marionette Theater will present the play “The Sound of Music”.
Hamamatsu is home to many international instrument manufacturers and has continued to be testament to the potential and diversity of music as Hamamatsu, the Capital of Music. Hamamatsu aims to show the power of music to the world through its one-of-a-kind concerts
Sports of Heart in 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo
📅Sep.26-Sep.28, 2025 📍EXPO Arena “Matsuri”
The Expo will also serve as the culmination of “Diversity Ekiden 47,” a program to build momentum for the Expo and to link diverse runners from all over Japan. There are featuring para-sports experiences, talk shows, and entertainment shows.
The Satoumi, Sea of Art -KAGAWA-
📅Sep.26-Sep.29, 2025 📍Gallery WEST
Issues related to the development of Kagawa Prefecture and its rich and beautiful nature, and efforts to solve such issues, will be presented through exhibits and hands-on experiences. Performances and workshops to create works of art from marine litter will be held to help visitors understand Kagawa’s efforts to address environmental issues.
Performance of Yosakoi Dance by People with Disabilities
📅Sep.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
It is a Yosakoi dance troupe composed of individuals with intellectual disabilities residing in care facilities, users of employment support facilities, their families, and staff members. The group aims to promote interaction between people with and without disabilities, as well as regional coexistence. We participate in numerous events.
Cyber-JP Week【Taishu Engeki Satomi Takashi】presented by Gofukuza
📅Sep.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Gofukuza
It will represent a new future for Japan’s proud traditional performing art, “Taishu Engeki” popular theater.
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North
Experience the magic of Saudi Arabia’s iconic symbols—The Arabian Leopard and The Arabian Horse—brought to life in a captivating puppet show. This performance introduces audiences to the Kingdom’s rich history, cultural heritage, and vision for environmental and technological progress.
【Hungary】Hungarian Music Performance
📅Sep.26, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East
hungarian music performance
【Chile】 Chile, Event 11
📅Sep.26-Sep.28, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage West
music, cooking, dance,etc.
『LIFE®︎ Inochi Re-experience birth, live performance with Super Kids Orchestra』
EXPO 2025 ”LIFE®INOCHI RE-EXPERIENCE BIRTH with SUPER KIDS ORCHESTRA” Navigated by Masahiko Hashimoto September 27th, 2025 (SAT)
【Sri Lanka】 Cultural Show
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍EXPO National Day Hall “Ray Garden”
Cultural Dancing
【Viet Nam】 Viet Nam traditional art performance
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
The most beautiful and unique traditional music of Viet Nam performed by the outstanding musical troupe
Cyber-JP Week Kamacon in Osaka Expo
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage South
Kamacon is a movement to support the revitalization of the town while having fun. This time, we plan to brainstorm in the spirit of “respect with harmony”.
【India】World Tourism Day
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage North
Cultural Program
【Saudi Arabia】 We Are Saudi Arabia
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East
Experience the magic of Saudi Arabia’s iconic symbols—The Arabian Leopard and The Arabian Horse—brought to life in a captivating puppet show. This performance introduces audiences to the Kingdom’s rich history, cultural heritage, and vision for environmental and technological progress.
【India】World Tourism Day
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Inner East
Cultural Program
【Oman】 Experience Oman
📅Sep.27, 2025 📍Pop-Up Stage Outer East
An exquisite and captivating musical performance by the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra.
An exhibition of photographs from the album ‘Natural Histories’. Photographs juxtaposing images of animals and humans is a story about the organic relationship between man and nature, about the space of coexistence between animals and humans, the equality of their image. showing the common features that constitute an interspecies community.
Introducing Daily Events 👇
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 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.
©2024 Ministry of the Environment, Japan. 
Performed by TOT³
An experiential live tour around the world with national anthem x classical x folk music x drums x pop music
Katura Fukuryu 
Cyber-JP
ⒸFuture Kid Takara Production Committee
Cyber-JP
©The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
Gofukuza
©Feel＆Sense ©Lennart Nilsson ©NASA
