Expo 2025 Osaka, Japan

[EddMarkStarr]

13 April 2025 to 13 October 2025

If you like walking and wood - then Expo 2025 is for you!
Lots of video reviews of long lines, crowded pavilions, high humidity, and temperatures of 30 to 35 °C.

While I find these types of world expositions old fashioned, people in other countries may disagree with my opinion.
I do enjoy all the POV video uploads. Here's one I found interesting.

 

[Araucaria]

Impressive! But I just wonder how many forests were sacrificed to build that giant wood pavilion, which I'm sure was not domestically sourced. And that logo of the eyeballs appearing at random locations in that wreath of circles looks a bit creepy.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I've seen the future . . . it's Wood.

Looks like several forests were used when you add in the individual pavilions that also were constructed in the same Expo 2025 theme.

 

[Kahaih]

They aren't planning to leave the wooden structure there, are they? Seems like most, if not all, of the lumber could be put to use elsewhere.

Anyway, the trees are dying everywhere, and will continue to rot where they stand if not caught in time to make use of what's left of them.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

They aren't planning to leave the wooden structure there, are they? Seems like most, if not all, of the lumber could be put to use elsewhere.

Anyway, the trees are dying everywhere, and will continue to rot where they stand if not caught in time to make use of what's left of them.

The Expo 2025 organizers promised that all the structures will be carefully dismantled and the wood reused for other projects.

And the Grand Ring will be the home of a new city park.

 

[Thad1527]

I've never been to an actual World's Fair...just their former sites. From Montreal to Flushing Meadows, St. Louis to Spokane, Seattle to Knoxville to San Antonio...I've ranged from a little too late to decades later.

 

[EddMarkStarr]

I don't handle crowds as well as I used to. Some of the former fair sites look more pleasant to stroll through.

Guess creating central monuments for World's Fairs and Expos is a thing of the past, like Expo '58.

 

[rareboy]

They are definitely an out-of-date concept in the modern world.

Even when I was a kid, it was just too expensive and troublesome for most working class families to take the whole family and at that time the World's Fair actually was the place to see cutting edge architecture and technology. I always think of Kruschev at the fair in New York and the great Kitchen Debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Debate

And a place for post-war countries to pitch their re-built or new cities to tourists. This is no different as countries pitch themselves as perfect destinations to Japanese tourists.

Japan has gone a different route with the re-usable wood superstructure that takes the place of an actual monument and unlike some of the other world fair sites that seemed purposeless and barren after the party was over, this was always intended to be a permanent new park for people to escape to from the the City.

But the fair itself is a staggering waste of money and resources.

 

[Kahaih]

Eiffel Tower - Wikipedia

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Personally, I find the entire concept of tourism garish, wasteful and repugnant.

 

[rareboy]

^ Like my father...

 

[EddMarkStarr]

They are definitely an out-of-date concept in the modern world.

Even when I was a kid, it was just too expensive and troublesome for most working class families to take the whole family and at that time the World's Fair actually was the place to see cutting edge architecture and technology. I always think of Kruschev at the fair in New York and the great Kitchen Debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Debate

And a place for post-war countries to pitch their re-built or new cities to tourists. This is no different as countries pitch themselves as perfect destinations to Japanese tourists.

Japan has gone a different route with the re-usable wood superstructure that takes the place of an actual monument and unlike some of the other world fair sites that seemed purposeless and barren after the party was over, this was always intended to be a permanent new park for people to escape to from the the City.

But the fair itself is a staggering waste of money and resources.

That's my reaction as well, Expos feel like a holdover from a past century. Countries and industries can showoff their latest and greatest much more effectively and cheaply.

As the seat of the European Union, Brussels has restored the Expo '58 attractions including the Atomium.