Expo 2025

2025 Osaka
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Overview
BIE-class	Universal exposition
Category	International Registered Exhibition
Name	EXPO 2025
Motto	Designing Future Society for Our Lives
Area	155 hectares (383 acres)[1]
Visitors	28 million (projected)
Organized by	Hiroyuki Ishige (secretary general)
Mascot	Myaku-Myaku
Location
Country	Japan
City	Osaka
Venue	Yumeshima Island, Konohana-ku
Coordinates	34°39′12.7″N 135°23′11.1″E / 34.653528°N 135.386417°E / 34.653528; 135.386417
Timeline
Bidding	22 April 2017 (2017-04-22)
Awarded	23 November 2018 (2018-11-23)
Opening	13 April 2025 (2025-04-13)
Closure	13 October 2025 (2025-10-13)
Universal expositions
Previous	Expo 2020 in Dubai
Next	Expo 2030 in Riyadh
Specialized expositions
Previous	Expo 2023 in Buenos Aires (cancelled)
Next	Expo 2027 in Belgrade
Horticultural expositions
Previous	Expo 2022 in Almere
Next	Expo 2027 in Yokohama
Internet
Website	www.expo2025.or.jp/en/

Expo 2025 (2025年日本国際博覧会, 2025-nen Nippon Kokusai Hakurankai, and officially 大阪・関西万博 Ōsaka•Kansai Banpaku for short) is an upcoming World Expo organised and sanctioned by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which will be held in Osaka, Japan. It will take place for six months during 2025, opening 13 April 2025 and closing 13 October 2025, for a total of 184 days.^[2] This will be the third time Osaka hosts a World Expo, having previously hosted Expo 1970 and Expo 1990. The event will return to its traditional 5-year scheduling cycle after the Expo 2020 was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3] The projected visitor count is approximately 28 million.^[2]