INSIDE Osaka World Expo 2025 Part 8: Null2, Future City, Indonesia & More – Japan Travel 大阪関西万博
Hi everyone, David here. Welcome back to
the channel! Thanks for coming back for another video, or welcome if it’s your first time. Thanks
for joining us! How are you doing? I’m doing OK. I’m a little bit hot and bothered. Osaka summer
is here. We’re getting sudden downpours of rain. It’s a little bit unpredictable, but it’s
quite cool today, actually. It’s quite nice. Now today, as you probably expected, I’m going
to talk about Osaka Expo. This is my 8th video, I think, to talk about the Expo. Although, this
will cover day 8 and day 9 of my visits. Because they were both half days, I thought I’d
squish them together so I can try to catch up with all this footage I’ve taken. So yeah,
I got in a bit of a bad mood on day 8 because I couldn’t find any reservations on
the midnight reservation thing. It’s getting very crowded at night. It’s really hard to get
one of those first come first served reservations or indeed at all anywhere. The ticket lotteries
are hard to get anything. The midnight thing is a complete disaster because the site crashes.
There was a way to kind of work around that within the system, but apparently they’re
cracking down on that as well. But they haven’t fixed the website. What are we doing?
I don’t know. I’m struggling towards the end. I’m going to make it. I can see the end in sight
to see all the pavilions. but I’m going to talk about those today. I am going to talk about
Belgium, which is one of the nice ones. The Advanced Air Mobility station, which is
the kind of leftover I did get for the midnight reservations, Commons B, which was
those big ones you with lots of small countries inside. I think I’ve done A and D before
already on this channel. We’re doing B today and day 9 – we’re going to finally get into
Nuru Nuru which is one of the elusive signature pavilions, the hardest one to get reservation for.
I didn’t need to get a reservation for this one. This is the Installation Mode which happens
early in the morning. If you can get in at 9:00 and you can dash then maybe you can make it.
I’m going to talk about that at the end as well. Future City, I had a reservation for from the
2 months before reservation, and Future Village which has a lot of small booths. Junior SDG’s
camp which has a very special stamp. Indonesia, some food court area around the Theme Weeks
Studio, and also Peru. That’s our last one. So quite a lot of variety to look at today, a
few big ones. So hold on to your hats! Please like this video, subscribe to the
channel if you haven’t already. Leave a comment or a question, I’ll happily help you. And
also share the channel if anyone’s going to Expo soon. You can even give me a tip on the
Super Like if you really enjoyed this and it was useful. That helps me to keep the lights on.
What else? You can check out my other videos, the Expo diaries for days 1-7. I’ll put some
of those pictures up. And also, recently I did a video explaining which pavilions need
reservations, which don’t, which might do, which I recommend, and so on. So hopefully
that’s going to be useful for your booking, getting ready for the Expo. So reservations
aren’t everything, although they are useful for some of them. So, OK, that’s
enough chatting away. I’m going to hand over to myself. Enjoy the show. I’ll see you on
the other side with my deep dive critique into all of this. So, see you soon! OK, welcome back
again to Yumeshima Station for the eighth time, I believe. I can’t believe it’s been eight times
already. And a sea of parasols at the east gate as we’re waiting to go inside. It’s getting hotter
and hotter out there. So, my first trip today was to the Belgium pavilion. You can see a nice outline of the country out front – fairly plain outside, but that gets projection mapping in the evening.
It’s very nice. So, here we are. A nice circular waterfall at the start to our little garden. Not
really sure what the connection was to the rest of the pavilion, but this was a very pleasant little
area to wait. Inside, we get a lot of information about Belgium’s healthcare research power
and some very dramatic looking projections in various rooms here. Apparently it’s
the largest clinical testing facility in Europe. I didn’t know that! So, thinking about
Vaccinopolis. Don’t tell the antivaxxers. And they’ve got a good record, they’ve got lots
of famous Belgians over time. Some very crazy digital arts tell us about healthcare
advances in the future. And we can see the Bloemen van Hoop, the flowers of hope
for the future. As we go to the next floor, we learn a little bit more about Brussels then,
not just for Christmas. And yeah, there we go. And some thoughts about the future of health
technology in the summer & autumn of your life. And various bits of scanning can help us
help you to feel better in the future. Some rather scary kind of Matrix-like
advancements there. But don’t think about that. Let’s do some expressive interpretive dance
to show our healthcare is up to standard. I can’t do that, I’m not healthy enough. Beating heart
of Europe, there we go. So, very nice! Yeah, a nice technologically-driven display there.
And you can go to the roof as well. You can have a nice view of the outside. There’s a
little cafe on top as well, which I couldn’t get into because it was too expensive. I
didn’t have a lot of time actually! You can look down into that waterfall as well.
Because my only reservation today was for the Advanced Air Mobility Pavilion where you can
see the fabled drone taxi planes. Not sure what the official term is. You can get your picture
taken with it if you have a reservation. And you can also colour in your own drone. I hand drew
this myself. Not really. And you can see a little theatrical production inside. A little projection
room where all your creations are brought to life. And then finally, you can get some more
information about these drone taxis. I’ll show you a little bit of that bit later in
Future City. So yeah, the vertical take-off drone electric airplanes. I think that’s what they
are. I’m not sure I could fly one myself. Anyway, I had a bit of time to kill because I couldn’t
find any more reservations. So here we at the Commons B. I’m going to let you sit and watch this and I’ll come back in a moment. OK, there we go, that was Commons B. I think
I’ve only got one more of those to look at now. Meanwhile, outside the Chile Pavilion, we’re
having a bit of a party. I couldn’t see any of this, by the I had to lift my camera really high up.
They’re having some nice traditional dances. And finally on this day I went to the Expo Messe
which is a little exhibition area, where they were talking about food at this time. By this
point I was getting hot and bothered and a little bit crabby. I got one spoon of curry rice
to try. So I went home but so on day 9 I came back. I managed to dash my way to Signature
Pavilion Nuru Nuru for one of their little open house moments at 9:30, you don’t need a
reservation. You can go to see the Installation Mode of Nuru Nuru. I’ve been waiting to get into
this pavilion for so long. This isn’t the full show, This is just the demonstration mode and
I have no idea what was going on. There’s this metallic cube being moved around by a robot
arm & some rather psychedelic effects going on. There’s a little turning mirror in the middle,
There’s a vaguely kind of bacterial vibe to this show, but very interesting. This was…
actually I don’t know, more interesting than I expected. A little bit abstract and insane,
but then again, so was the Live Earth Journey, I enjoyed this one more than that. Better than
the Dynamic Equilibrium too. So, they’re just showing all the different screen savers
that Nuru Nuru has to offer. Now if you want to enter the full half hour show of this then you
have to get a reservation. Luckily that is coming up in possibly the next video. Otherwise watch
out, there’s a bit of a strobe warning in this pavilion too. I’m not going to show that today
though. And on the way out you can see this little colourful display, so there we go. Nuru Nuru.
Some interesting objects outside, little CRTs. That’s very nostalgic. So, there we go. More
on that later! I’m going to come back to that next video. I had a bit of free time as well,
so I decided to go to the Tunisian pavilion to see if I could spend a little bit more time than
last time to check out some of the food, which I didn’t end up buying, and also some of
the decor. It’d be nice to sit down and enjoy the cafe here. It’s quite difficult to see what
was on the menu without being right up close to it. Anyway, I’m off towards the West Gate
area now. As you can see, Gundam over there. There’s the Yoshimoto pavilion. I haven’t really
talked about the West Gate very much. I haven’t entered there yet, but I am planning to at some
point. Apparently, the lines are a lot shorter, but that is the way to get to Future City, which
is on the other side of the West Gate. This is a rather large pavilion, which I got a reservation
for about 2 months in advance. So, here we are. Welcome to Future City. Oh, hello! And this is
home to a lot of the big technology companies and their displays. Apparently, we’ve got to
start right back at the dinosaurs at the dawn of society. We’re poking mammoths with sticks.
And eventually, we’re doing some cultivation, agriculture, and then oh, suddenly we’re in the
steam age and the digital age, too. Of course, we’re in the modern… I don’t know what age
we’re in now. And we live to be happy though, apparently. Not if you read social media!
Then we can see some scenes of the future. We can enjoy happy birthdays with holograms
and drones. You enjoy smart lamp posts which are provide a lot of information. And then I had
a reservation to get into the Mirai theatre which is an extra activity. And you get to meet Omega
and Alpha, our rather scary looking AI assistants who are talking to us and little theatrical
moment here, where we’re helping little Timmy repair the future that we ruined. So this has
got audience participation too. You can vote for the future that you want. This is the
future liberals hope for. Or that Omega guy. He made me laugh, but he was a little bit
scary. There he is, tweaking out. You can try a lot of little interactive activities, too.
I waited for this one for quite a while, even though I’m fairly sure it’s just for small
children. And you can have a glimpse into the future of mobility and some nice animations
there. And this huge area which had some rather scary sculptures, but also displays
from various technology companies. And yeah, the moon’s still there in the future.
These are all different booths along this long exhibition space. So let’s take a look
through some of these little exhibitions. First of all, we had some AI or AR displays here.
See the future! We have an elaborate machine. Not sure what that was about. We’ve got
Kobelco talking about industry of the future. It looks a lot like industry of the present, but whatever. You can do a spot of time travelling as well, Doctor Who style. Go through the
time vortex to the future city with your AI guide. Very nice, drone taxis again. You can see this very Pokemon-esque walking vehicle that can help you climb mountains. There’s a portable
wind turbine boat that can generate renewable energy. There’s an underwater bulldozer thing
which can clean up down there. You can see the Shinkansen of the future as well. You can see
these.. I don’t know why you need a robot arm for your chair, to just pour your drink maybe? And
bentos of the past and moving on to the future. They’re getting more elaborate and healthier
hopefully. Some interesting performative art as well, talking about renewable technology and
various hydrogen turbines and whatnot. And you can line up for quite a while to enjoy
the Kubota interactive game. You can invest in the future, various bits of agriculture and
healthcare. And did we win? No. Unfortunately, they didn’t really help us out very much. It’s a
rather arbitrary game. We lost out just by hair’s breadth. And you can see Myaku Myaku
enjoying the Kubota advanced tractors, automated tractors because farmers are dying
out. And some other interactive games in the World Tree, you can do some renewable energy
generation. Now outside in the Future Village, you can see the Vertiport, which is where
another drone taxi was. Apparently they’re going to have displays
about this in Autumn. I’ll wait for that. And various other things like speeches,
presentations about SDGS and so on. Designs of the future, you can whack the snot
out of some samurai with some virtual reality. In the JAXA space agency area, you can see
models of the lunar rovers and moon probes and so on. You can take a look at best practices for
SDGS in the future. Not many people in here. Also some mobility ideas, including this
movable chair, which you can line up and ride on. There’s a huge display area, I’m not sure what
that air conditioner was supposed to be doing out there. And Junior SDGs Camp,
you can go inside and learn about SDGs, but also there is a special display in the back.
– there’s also a puzzle game you can try – which is the super heavy stamp for your
passport. So you can stamp down with this I think, 11kg concrete passport stamp.
So there you go. You can get your stamp there. I was running out of energy too, so I went to
the Indonesian pavilion, which luckily didn’t have a long wait. They’re taking care of us
with these misting platforms as well. They were introducing some performances out here.
Some traditional Indonesian performances But finally, we got let in fairly quickly to the
Indonesian pavilion. There’s a little rainforest jungle inside, so you can enjoy the nature and
also some interesting art inspired by nature, too. So, for example, this orangutan and various
bits of art dotted around this jungle, including this… I don’t know, biblically
accurate bird of paradise. A little bit scary. A plastic Komodo dragon, and apparently this
is some kind of peafowl. Not sure I see that one myself. Of course we get the usual immersive
theatre about the nature of Indonesia. Some trippy traditional art-looking things. And
a look through the caves and also underwater, under the sea. Life’s better where it’s wetter.
And going up to the second floor, you can see a lot of famous Indonesians over
history, and some cultural items, ceremonial items. They were still performing outside,
so we could get a glimpse from the top window. And a nice little… I don’t know what this was,
a kind of mini diorama thing of the city, lighting up Jakarta. And of course, some traditional arts
and crafts as well. Some of the weaving they do there. And also a theatre display of some of the
shadow puppets that they use. It was very nice. I stumbled into the Theme Weeks Studio which
had a huge food court. Very nice! I needed a bit of air conditioning at this point in the day.
I bought whatever the hell this thing was. I think it was full of cheese and with potato chips
stuck to it. That’s from one of the Korean stands. But they’ve got famous restaurants from all over
Japan including Kamukura. They’ve got sushi, I think some gyoza around the back there. Kushi
Katsu Daruma, a famous Kushi Katsu restaurant from Osaka, Kukuru, a Takoyaki shop. You can
even get served by this little robot thing. And upstairs there are various other restaurants, too.
I think this was a kind of German Oktoberfest themed place, a little kids playground as well
for the little tiny tots. Plant-based ramen if you want to try that, plant-based beer I think as
well. Some kind of retro cafes including some Showa TV commercials. Back in the food court
there was this Nebuta Matsuri themed display. Nobody puts Buddha in the corner! Now outside Tech World, I didn’t go in this time, I’m going to get there at some point. They’re doing a nice
steel drum performance. And I reached my final destination for the day which was Peru.
The Peru pavilion, which went to great pains to remind you that’s where Machu Picchu is.
That’s in pretty much every display they had. So you can see some other visual feasts of Peru.
Of course, Machu Picchu. You can see that being displayed. They’ve cut the grass all nice as well.
Yeah, fantastic. See some of the nature of Peru and of course the night life too. Some beautiful
big cities. I guess that must be Lima, maybe? You can see some Peruvian inspired manga or anime which looked cool. Kind of conquistador skulls. Not sure what’s going on. And some of
the Peruvian exports including Pisco which is some kind of alcohol. And also some fruits
and vegetables, other foods, coffee, and some black corn there. Some traditional outfits
as well, from the mountains. Very beautiful. Interesting art displays too. These little
dolls were very cute. Hopefully not cursed. And you can see some of the swag of the Lord
of Sipan, including some gold and silver bangles and necklaces and things like that, and some
rather interesting idols. Makes me think of Crash Bandicoot. So, there we go. That’s the end
of two days of work. Thanks for watching all the way to the end. I’ve got a bit more commentary
after this. OK, welcome back! Thanks for staying all the way to the end, I really appreciate that!
So, what did you think of day 8 and day 9? We had a nice variety, I think day 8, I managed
to get in at 10:00 fairly quickly. So, I sprinted all the way to Belgium to try and get in there
before the line got long. Actually, the line for Belgium isn’t that long. Maybe
20 minutes, 30 minutes, and you can get in. Very nice! I like the visuals. Very cool.
Outside is really cool at night as well. If you can see it at night, they have the big
projection mapping things. And I got a free Biscoff biscuit as well, which was good.
I don’t know what the fuss is about Biscoff Biscoff actually. It’s not bad but it’s…I don’t know
We’ve got better biscuits in the UK. But I’d like to try the Belgian waffles if
I have a chance, but it had a long line, too. Advanced Air Mobility. I was thinking, a bit of a
non-event, but actually it was quite good. I could get my picture taken. In fact, here’s my picture
taken with the drone, inside the drone. And there’s a little theatre inside, that you can
immerse yourself in and see all those gliders that you’ve designed, and some other future
presentation. I couldn’t film that, by the way, so I couldn’t show you that. But, you can go
into this pavilion without a reservation, but you can’t go inside the drone to take a photo,
and you can’t go inside the theatre. So, you just do a loop around, but you can just wander
in there if you want to. Commons B, as usual, a fairly mixed bag. You can see all sorts of
different cultures and things. It was kind of nice. Some of them are putting in more effort
than others. I was really surprised by the hidden ones in the back. They’re really behind the main
wall. I think was it Chad and Sierra Leone and Cabo Verde? They were all behind there.
So check those out. I didn’t even think there were any staff there, I don’t know what’s happening.
Yeah, it was cool. Zimbabwe was nice for the VR Then yeah, I think I ran out of patience then.
I was waiting to try to get a reservation for Nuru Nuru, but I failed dismally. The
on-the-day reservations are quite hard to get and finally I got hot and bothered and gave up and
went home. I’m a very bad-tempered young man. So day 9, I made it to Nuru Nuru, the
Installation Mode. There are two modes you can do for Nuru Nuru. Installation Mode is free to enter from 9:30 until maybe 9:50. It’s first come, first served. You’ve just got to make it there.
I just got there in time for the 9:30 so I could I could go in. And like I showed you in the video,
you can just take a look at the technology moving around and the robot arm moving up
and down and scaring everyone. It’s kind of like being in a Terminator nightclub,
if you like that. It was kind of cool, very intense, electronic, darkness, oppressive.
But I guess that’s art. I don’t know. I don’t really understand what it was about, but I’ll
have to do some research. Spoiler warning: the next Expo video I make, I actually do get into
Nuru Nuru, the proper one. I finally got a reservation using some means and special
techniques, which apparently I’m not allowed to anymore. So, sorry, I have to pull up the ladder
behind me. Also, Future City was cool. It’s a very large area, too, a bit like the Osaka Healthcare
Pavilion. You could spend a long time in there. I spent about 3 hours I think,
trying all the different exhibitions and little booths. So that was cool. The village,
the Future Village was kind of interesting, especially the JAXA space agency booth. You
get a little video once an hour. I think it’s half past the hour every time. I’m not sure. But
if you get a chance you can see a little mini theatre there. You can also line up and see some
Mars meteorite and some moon rocks. But, that was a long line and I was over it
by that point, I gave up. The Junior SDG’s Camp You can see that super heavy stamp,
that was kind of interesting. And a nice hint here, if you’re trying to cool down a little bit,
there’s also a water dispenser in there. You can fill up your water bottle.
Actually, in the West area, they do have some water dispensers side by side, Imagine that!
All the other ones in the park have got them face to face, so there’s two lines. It’s a lot better,
a lot faster if they just have two side by side. So that’s a nice place to fill up your water
bottles. There are a lot of food courts and things around there, too. So, it’s a nice place
to relax. I think people just don’t even realize it’s there. If you come in from the East Gate,
you might not even realize there was an area out there. Indonesia was very cool. The staff are
being very friendly all the time. They’re always dancing and cheering us. And there always
seems to be some performances out front. So, you saw that in the video. Some kind
of traditional dances of some description. That was very cool. The jungle inside was very
nice. The Theme Weeks Studio, I think the Theme Weeks Studio is actually a display area that’s
like a rotating one that changes for different countries to present something. I think they had
something from Sierra Leone last time I went there or Zambia or somewhere. Gabon, that was
it, Gabon! But there’s loads of restaurants, a huge food court in there too. So definitely take
a look in there. And finally, Peru. it’s kind of one of the “Welcome to our Country” pavilions
that are just showing off their culture, their technology, their exports, that kind of thing.
How many times did they have to mention Machu Picchu? I don’t know. If you didn’t realize
that’s in Peru, you certainly would after that pavilion. So yeah, nice though. I like the styling
of the logos and all that stuff. A nice relaxing place. So that was it! That was
the day 8 and 9. Not a huge haul of pavilions, but I did get a lot of stamps because the
Future City and the Village has about five, I think, or six. So, you can clean up in your
passport from there. You might notice I’ve got a new lanyard. This is for my keeping my passport clean, out of my sweaty pockets. So, I’m doing quite well. I’m getting through my
my passport. I got some special ones here. So, I’m going to try and fill this up.
As of recording this, I’ve already done day 12 by the time you watch
this one. I might squeeze that on to the end of the next video. By this time I have
only 12 pavilions left to go. So I’m really pushing for the last ones. Some of them
are a bit of a pain to get into, so wish me luck! I’m going to try and get through all of them.
And then I’m going to do some video explaining every single one of them. I might do some big
marathon video. So stay tuned for that if you want to. And I’m going to do a ranking as
well! So the Expo stuff never finishes, at least not until autumn. So I hope this is not too much
Expo stuff for you. As you probably realized, I’m doing other stuff in alternate weeks. So I’m
doing one week of Expo, one week of something else. I’m going to try and stagger them as much
as possible. So please bear with me. OK, I think that’s everything. I’m getting a sore
throat from talking to everybody. So, I need a little drink. I’m really enjoying this at the
moment. This is the Starbucks Tropical Twist. It’s got a hibiscus tea, peach, and strawberry,
I think, something like that in it. Not getting sponsored, but it is very nice. If you see these
in Japan, please try it out. I got this from 7-Eleven. But there we go. So, please like this
video, subscribe to the channel, share the video to everybody. Leave a comment or a question,
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and see you again. Bye-bye!
The 2025 World Expo opened in Osaka’s new Yumeshima Island in April 2025, I was there in its opening week to enjoy around 200 pavilions from every corner of the world. But now I have the season pass, I have visited a few more times since then. So today I’ll share my Day 8 & 9 visit diary.
Today you will see footage from my eighth and ninth visits to the Expo, including:
Belgium Pavilion
Advanced Air Mobility Pavilion
Commons-B Pavilion
Signature Pavilion: null2 (Installation Mode)
Future City
Future Village
Junior SDGs Camp
Indonesia Pavilion
Theme Weeks Studio area
Peru Pavilion
After showing you the pavilions, I’ll let you know what I thought about them. What are your recommendations?
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