The Future City Pavilion of EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai was completed and opened to media, just one month before it opens on April 13 2025. 12 Japanese leading manufacturers and organizations showcases their innovations for the future society.
The pavilion with a concept of ‘To the city of happiness,’ measuring 150 meters in length and covering an exhibition area of 3,300 square meters, consists of three common exhibitions and five individual theme exhibitions of ‘Society 5.0 and the Future City,’ ‘Transportation and Mobility,’ ‘Environment and Energy,’ ‘Manufacturing and Urban Development’ and ‘Food and Agriculture.”
Opening ceremony
The pavilion starts with ‘Theme Exhibition’ with curving vision showcasing the birth of mankind and the formation of society to its maturity, and the perspective of “happiness” from the past to the future.
Common Exhibition 01 features four enigmatic 3D Cubes that represents a glimpse of Society 5.0 in the fields of life, mobility, healthcare, entertainment and art in 2035.
Entrance of the pavilion
Enigmatic 3D Cubes that represents a glimpse of Society 5.0
In the space of ‘Transportation and Mobility,’ Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) opens the future public transportation system ‘ALICE SYSTEM, which represents an innate ‘impulse to move’ encoded in humans’ DNA. The hydrogen energy-powered ‘ALICE Cabin’ enables a passenger to transit to a train, a ship or an airplane automatically.
KHI「ALICE SYSTEM」
Mistui O.S.K. Lines exhibits the hydrogen energy-powered ‘Wind Hunter,’ which is the potential of boats in a future society to capture and utilize “wind”, the ultimate natural energy source. A visitor can earn about the mechanism of using the wind to navigate, produce and supply hydrogen with a visitor-participation attraction.
Mistui O.S.K. Lines ‘Wind Hunte,’
In the scape of ‘Food and Agriculture,’ Kubota exhibits the Versatile Platform Robots
to perform a range tasks required in agriculture and other fields with fully autonomous and no need for human intervention. The robots perform data-driven, precision farming, handle the many remaining manual tasks, and even carry out civil engineering and construction work with fully autonomous.
Kubota's the Versatile Platform Robots.
