The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”) announces that it is decided that to build momentum for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan (hereinafter referred to as “the Expo”) from April 2024, one year ahead of the opening of the Expo, trains wrapped with designs of the Expo’s official logo and official “MYAKU-MYAKU” will be operated on the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen, Sanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen, and Hokuriku Shinkansen. In addition, an “Osaka Loop Line NFT Station Stamp Collection Event” will start on November 30, 500 days before the opening of the Expo, in cooperation with JR West Japan Group, as a business collaboration service with the “EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet.”
▽ Period of operation
From around April 13, 2024 to October 13, 2025, the end of the Expo
※ The wrapped trains are scheduled to run even after the Expo ends, until the wrapping is removed.
▽ Service routes
Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen (From Tokyo to Hakata)
Sanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen (From Shin-Osaka to Kagoshima-chuo)
Hokuriku Shinkansen (From Tokyo to Tsuruga※)
※ Scheduled to be extended to Tsuruga on March 16, 2024
▽ Trains to be wrapped
Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen: Series N700 and N700S(16 cars, 1 train each)
Sanyo-Kyushu Shinkansen: Series N700(8 cars, 1 train)
Hokuriku Shinkansen: Series W7(12 cars, 1 train)
(For reference)
Press release (West Japan Railway Company)
Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Theme-Wrapped Shinkansen Bullet Trains Run!
URL: https://www.westjr.co.jp/press/article/2023/11/page_23901.html (Japanese)
As one of the business collaboration services with the “EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet”, the “Osaka Loop Line NFT Station Stamp Collection Event” will start on November 30, 500 days before the opening of the Expo.
▽ Period of operation: From November 30, 2023 to March 24, 2024
▽ Location (First round)
・Station stamp stands at JR Osaka Station, JR Nishikujo Station and JR Tennoji Station
・Inside the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan theme-wrapped trains
※ The second and subsequent rounds will be launched as needed in the future.
▽ Details:
During the stamp collection event period, users of the EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet application can obtain original NFT station stamps drawn by illustrators and artists associated with the Kansai region by scanning the 2D codes placed at participating stations and inside the “Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Theme-Wrapped Trains.”/
・ For details, please refer to the dedicated website:
https://www.jr-odekake.net/navi/nft-stamprally/ (Japanese)
(For reference)
Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, “EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet” Service to Start on November 1, 2023
https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/news/news-20231023-03/
Public Relations Department, Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
E-mail: media@expo2025.or.jp