The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition (hereinafter referred to as “the Association”) is pleased to announce that a “Digital Travel Zone” has opened in the Digital Wallet Park at the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan (hereinafter referred to as “the Expo”) site to provide visitors with a realistic view of local scenery and tourist attractions.
The Digital Travel Zone utilises room-type LED displays and VR goggles to create an immersive experience that feels as if you are actually visiting different tourist sites while physically being at the Expo site.
Visitors can choose from a selection of around 200 videos of various genres which have been collected from local regions.
This will be the first initiative of its scale in Japan to attract tourism through a single platform. The project aims take advantage of the opportunity that the Expo presents to promote and revitalise local tourism.
▽ Overview of the Digital Travel Zone
1. Opening Period
Wednesday 16 April 2025 – Monday 13 October 2025
Every Day: 11:00-18:00,
(Pre-opening period: 16 April – mid-May (planned), Full opening period: mid-May (planned) to 13 October)
2. Experience Contents
・ Viewing videos of local areas on room-type LED displays (Capacity: six people at a time. Length: approx. 10 minutes)
*Note: The room-type LED displays (W:4.5m x H: 2.5m x L:2.5m) was provided free of charge by the sponsor World Expo Exhibition Association Co. Ltd. (Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)
・VR goggles simulation experience (Capacity: six people at a time. Length: approx. 10 minutes)
・After the experience, visitors will be provided with information about how to purchase travel packages on the official Expo tourism portal site “Expo 2025 Official Experiential Travel Guides” (during full opening period)
▽ Flow of the Digital Travel Experience (during full opening period)
1. Register by scanning QR code on your Smart Phone at the reception (register your email address and preferred genre).
2. Watch a local tourism video on the room-type LED displays.
3. Use VR goggles to experience digital travel with a local tourism video of your choice.
4. After the experience is over, links to the YouTube VR page of the VR video you watched and travel package information on Expo 2025 Official Experiential Travel Guides will be sent to the email address that you registered. This will allow visitors to look back on the areas that made an impression on them through the immersive video and make it easier for them to actually visit the area.
*The experience can be enjoyed without scanning QR code or registering an email address.
▽ Features of the Digital Travel Zone Project
1. A video experience that will make you want to actually visit the area.
Visitors can watch about 200 videos about tourism in various local areas. In addition, VR videos using the latest equipment provide an immersive and realistic video experience that will make you want to actually visit the area. This is hoped to attract visitors to attractive areas that have not yet been noticed by many tourists.
2. Unique implementation system
Operating costs will be covered by exhibition fees from the exhibiting organisations such as local governments. Exhibiting organisations will take on the challenge to attract new visitors through the room-type LED displays installed in front of the Digital Wallet Park and will have the opportunity to offer local specialties (such as sweets) to visitors at the Digital Wallet Park during a three-day promotional period. Recruitment of exhibiting organisations is still open.
Click here to enter: https://expo-travel.jp/ (Japanese)
(For reference)
〇About the EXPO2025 Digital Wallet Park
The Digital Wallet Park is a facility within the Expo site where users of the EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet can enjoy special experiences. It offers activities which can be paid for using MYAKU-PO! points, an exclusive area with status benefits, and interactive content using the latest technology.
〇About the EXPO 2025 Digital Wallet:
The following websites have been established to provide information on how to use the EXPO2025 digital wallet.
▽ App download links
<App Store URL>
https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id6450660947
<Google Play URL>
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.hashport.hashwallet
▽ Introduction of EXPO2025 Digital Wallet
https://www.expo2025.or.jp/cashless/ (Japanese)
〇 Tourism portal site “Expo 2025 Official Experiential Travel Guides”:
https://www.expo2025travel.jp/page/3/en
(Media Enquiries)
〇 About the Digital Travel Zone:
・Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition, Planning Bureau, Cashless and Digital Wallet Section
・Digital Travel Zone Management Office Email address: info@expo-travel.jp
Global Communication Department, Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
Email: globalpr@expo2025.or.jp