Experience the Sumitomo Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan
Event hours: 9:00 am to 10:00 pm
Theme: Designing Future Society for Our Lives
The World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, Japan has “life” as its central theme and provides an opportunity for the world to come together in one place.
By enabling the exchange of diverse values from around the world, promoting new connections and creativity, overcoming global crises, protecting each and every life, and reexamining the nature of life and how we live, the Expo aims to show the world hope for the future.
Period: April 13 to October 13, 2025
Venue: Yumeshima, Osaka
Domestic Pavilions (hosted by central government, local governments, etc.)
The Japanese government and local governments are exhibiting at the Japan Pavilion, Women’s Pavilion, Osaka Healthcare Pavilion, and Kansai Pavilion. The Kansai Pavilion features an exterior design based on a lantern theme, and is adorned with paper cutout images symbolizing various parts of the Kansai region.
Official Participants’ Pavilions
Overseas pavilions are places where you can experience the unique characteristics of countries around the world through exhibits that represent future societies, technologies, and cultures. In particular, the sculpture Farnese Atlas in the Italy Pavilion is on display in Japan for the first time!
Pavilions for Private Sectors
There are 13 pavilions for private sectors, including the Sumitomo Pavilion, which are full of the originality that can only be achieved by private exhibitors. Through each experience, we hope you will sense the exciting future ahead and become more aware of social issues.
Experience the Sumitomo Pavilion: Toward a Future from the Forest
UNKNOWN FOREST Stories Waiting to Be Discovered
A forest that embraces a wide variety of life. It is a place that is home to vibrant life bursting with uniqueness and the joy of celebrating diversity. We hope to speak through this experience in the UNKNOWN FOREST about the values and the teachings that could only be told by a forest.
Experience the Plant-a-Tree Event
The foundation of the Sumitomo Group’s development is the Besshi Forest in Shikoku, which Sumitomo has carefully nurtured. After cutting down trees for construction, new seedlings will be planted in the cleared site, creating a forest that will continue into the future. A tree-planting event will be held within the Sumitomo Pavilion for children, who will lead the next generation, and everyone else, to take part in.
Large-scale Innovative Collaboration Project Seeds for the Future
We are implementing a major interactive project, Seeds for the Future, in which anyone can participate. This project is an interactive project centered around a web platform that enables anyone to generate ideas for the future—which are seeds for the future—based on a database of over 700 cutting-edge technologies and initiatives from the Sumitomo Group companies. Our company, Sumitomo Electric, is also participating in this project.
Virtual Sumitomo Pavilion
We have opened the Virtual Sumitomo Pavilion in Virtual Expo, Yumeshima Islands in the Sky, a virtual site that is a part of the Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan. The Virtual Sumitomo Pavilion is a digital space where visitors can experience the Sumitomo Group’s approximately 400-year history and its ambitions for the future.
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