Date: 9th July 2025

I visited and collected information about the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025 site to guide a couple from Canada on July 10 and 11, 2025.

When I arrived at the gate just after 9:00 a.m. to enter through the West Gate, there was already a long quew in front of the gate with temperatures approaching 30 degrees. After about 30 minutes, I finally entered the Expo site for the first time in about three months. Among the pavilions that the guests had requested to visit, I visited the France, the Philippines, the Saudi Arabia and the Korea Pavilion, excluding the USA Pavilion, the Italy Pavilion, and the Japan Pavilion, for which I already had sufficient information, and checked the moving line while checking the locations of good lunch places, cool rest areas, and water stations.

France Pavilion

The theme of the France Pavilion is a hymn to love. The symbolic red thread represents the connection between France and Japan, and the theme of love expresses “Loving yourself,” “Loving others,” and “Loving nature.” As a fashionable country, there are stylish exhibits of Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, which represent France, as well as exhibits of 1,000-year-old olive trees, wine, and grapes, as an agricultural country.

Philippines Pavilion

The Philippine Pavilion, themed “Nature, Culture & Community — Woven Together for a Better Future,”
While introducing the diverse nature of regions of the Philippines, if you dance in front of the screen, you can see your alter ego as a flower or fish dancing in the video, or enjoy an AI-generated photo of you and fruit or other materials.

Saudi Arabia Pavilion

Under the theme of “Together for a Better Future,” the Saudi Arabia Pavilion captures the Kingdom’s deep traditions, showcasing an ancient culture striving toward new possibilities for a shared future. It also introduces various initiatives toward the next international World Expo, Expo 2030 Saudi Arabia.

Korean Pavilion

The main theme of the Korean Pavilion is “With Hearts: Connecting Hearts, Lives in Bloom”. Upon entering the pavilion, visitors can enjoy a hands-on experience, such as listening to music synthesized from their recorded voices, and blowing into the venue turns into hydrogen gas bubbles that rain down on the pavilion. In addition, you can enjoy hearty Korean cuisine at the restaurant in the museum.

After that, I tried to enter Future city, which I had reserved using the Available Slot Reservation three days in advance, and to make a reservation using on-site registration, which can be made 10 minutes after entering the gate of venue. After entering the Blue Ocean Dome with on-site registration, I tried many times and managed to make reservations for the difficult-to-reserve Signature Zone Nul2 and the Mobility Experience drone-type airplane. It was a weekday and relatively scase, and I was lucky to try to make a reservation alone.

Future city Pavilion

Future city pavilion makes exhibition under a question “What kind of tomorrow awaits us?” Various Japanese companies are exhibiting future cities that could be realized in the near future.

BLUE OCEAN DOME

BLUE OCEAN DOME is a pavilion where visitors can learn about the concept of environmental protection.
In particular, it focuses on the issue of marine pollution, and aims to conserve and promote awareness of the “sustainable use of the ocean” and to realize the “Blue Ocean Declaration” by using new materials and reusing plastics.

Null２

Null2, presented by innovative digital artist OCHIAI Yoichi, has the theme of “Forging Lives”. This project aims to bring about progress in architecture and interactive technology that can only be achieved in a major global event held only once every few years.

Mobility Experience area

In the “Mobility Experience” area, you can board an actual flying vehicle at the “Advanced Air Mobility Station,” which houses a flying car capable of vertical takeoff and landing.

The water supply and toilets were most crowded at the Great ring near the entrance, followed by the area around the Forest of tranquility, and surprisingly, the area above the Great ring was relatively empty. The Future Life Zone, a little further away, was the least crowded and the water was very cold.

The plastic disc-shaped folding chairs are very convenient for lining up to enter without a reservation ticket. I saw people using them all over the Expo site. A wide-brimmed hat with mesh on the back of the head was also good for preventing heatstroke.