A Deep Dive into Admission Tickets for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan: We Recommend Night Tickets for Couples, Season Passes for Families!

Maido! Osaka Bob here.
Have you bought your ticket for the Expo yet? Advance tickets are already on sale!
Advance tickets include one-day tickets (super early bird tickets) at a bargain 20% off the price of one-day tickets during the Expo. The October 6 deadline for sales of these tickets is getting close! There are many different ticket types besides the super early bird tickets, so this article summarizes the types of admission tickets for the Expo to make a good reference for anyone considering what to buy!

●Five categories of admission tickets: “advance,” “multiple-entry,” “during the Expo,” “special discount,” and “group”

First, you should know that admission tickets for the Expo are basically electronic tickets (there are also plans to sell paper tickets). You need to register for an Expo ID to buy tickets on the official website (EXPO2025デジタルチケット | 公益社団法人2025年日本国際博覧会協会) and to reserve your own admission date and time, as well as pavilions and events to view.

1. Advance tickets
2. Multiple-entry passes
3. Tickets sold during the Expo
4. Special discount tickets
5. Group tickets

Of these, for advance tickets, multiple-entry passes, and tickets sold during the Expo, there are tickets with different entry times and periods.
Let’s check out each ticket in more detail!

1. Advance tickets

There are four types of advance tickets: opening tickets, first-half period tickets, discount super early bird tickets, and discount early bird tickets. Anyone who bought tickets during the advance sales period from November 30, 2023 to October 6, 2024 can enter the MYAKU-MYAKU PON! lottery to win exclusive goods and more! See
https://www.expo2025.or.jp/lp/lottery01/ (in Japanese) for details!

Opening tickets

These tickets allow one admission during the Expo’s opening period from April 13 to April 26.
They’re perfect for people who want to enjoy the Expo right after it opens. Another plus is that these tickets are priced more cheaply than others!

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-26	4,000 JPY	2,200 JPY	1,000 JPY

First-half period tickets

These tickets allow one admission from the opening day on April 13 to July 18.
Some say these tickets are the best to get because data from past Expos shows that the event will be comparatively less crowded for a while after opening. These ticket prices are also a bargain.

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-July18	5,000 JPY	3,000 JPY	1,200 JPY

One-day tickets (super early bird tickets)

These tickets allow one admission any time during the Expo.
What’s special about these tickets is that you can use them any time from the opening of the Expo to the closing on October 13. If you’re thinking about going to the Expo but can’t make a specific schedule, getting these one-day tickets (super early bird tickets) is one approach.
These tickets are about 20% cheaper than the one-day tickets you can buy during the Expo (7,500 JPY).

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	6,000 JPY	3,500 JPY	1,500 JPY

There’s one more point in favor of the one-day tickets (super early bird tickets).
You can enter the special lottery for super early birds!
With an ordinary ticket, you can only register for the lottery to reserve pavilions or events starting three months before your admission date, but if you buy a one-day ticket (super early bird ticket), you can register between September 25 and October 6, 2024. Then when you’re selected in the lottery, you can reserve what you would like to see as of October 12.
We recommend these tickets to people who want to improve their chances of going to pavilions or events that they’re looking forward to.
The purchase period is until October 6, 2024.

One-day tickets (early bird tickets)

These tickets allow one admission any time during the Expo.
They can be purchased after the sales period for one-day tickets (super early bird tickets) (until October 6, 2024). In other words, their purchase period is from October 7, 2024 to the opening of the Expo.

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	6,700 JPY	3,700 JPY	1,700 JPY

Purchase period until April 12, 2025

2. Multiple-entry passes

The venue for the Expo is very large, and events will be held in addition to pavilions from various countries and companies, so it’s bound to be hard to make the rounds of everything in one day. We recommend multiple-entry passes for people who want to visit more than once. There are two types of these.

Season passes

These tickets allow admission after 11 a.m. any day between the opening day on April 13 and October 3.
The Expo is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. It might feel like a slight drawback to enter at 11 a.m., but you still get plenty of fun in 11 hours. You can do enough for one day in 11 hours!

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 3	30,000 JPY	17,000 JPY	7,000 JPY

Season passes allow you to reserve dates and times before your visit for a maximum of three times. Then, after one visit, you can reserve the date and time for your fourth visit, and you can make subsequent reservations in the same way after that. That means that we absolutely recommend season passes to people who want to experience every last corner of the Expo, since you can make another reservation whenever you visit!
Just be careful: you can’t enter the Expo on or after October 4, 2025 with a season pass.

Summer passes

These tickets allow admission after 11 a.m. any day between July 19 and August 31, 2025.
These tickets are for people who want to spend their so-called “summer vacation” immersed in the Expo.
You can reserve dates and times before your visit for a maximum of two times. As with season passes, you can reserve the date and time for your third visit after visiting once!

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
July 19-August 31	12,000 JPY	7,000 JPY	3,000 JPY

3. Tickets sold during the Expo

These tickets are sold during the Expo (from April 13 to October 13, 2025). There are three types: one-day tickets, weekday tickets, and night tickets.

One-day tickets

These tickets allow one admission any time during the usable period from April 13 to October 13.

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	7,500 JPY	4,200 JPY	1,800 JPY

Weekday tickets

These tickets allow one admission after 11 a.m. on a weekday.
Buying weekday tickets is probably good for people thinking to avoid weekends when they go, or people who work on weekends but have off on weekdays.

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	6,000 JPY	3,500 JPY	1,500 JPY

Night tickets

These tickets can be used after 5 p.m. They allow one admission during the Expo.
A nice point is that these tickets are cheaper because admission time is restricted.

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	3,700 JPY	2,000 JPY	1,000 JPY

4. Special discount tickets

These tickets allow one admission any time during the Expo for people with a disability certificate, etc. and one accompanying guest.
Many planning meetings have been held to achieve universal design that is easy for people with disabilities to use at the Expo. It would be great for everyone to visit the venue and fully enjoy the Expo!

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	3,700 JPY	2,000 JPY	1,000 JPY

5. Group Tickets

These tickets allow one admission any time during the Expo for any groups of 15 or more.

Admission period	Adult 18 y/o+	Junior 12-17 y/o	Child 4-11 y/o
April 13-October 13	6,300 JPY	3,500 JPY	1,500 JPY

●How about a nighttime Expo date? We recommend night tickets for couples

The Yumeshima venue for the Expo is on a west-facing island, rare in Japan. That means that you can relish the sun setting over the Seto Inland Sea in the evening. It should be clearly visible, especially on top of the Grand Roof Ring!
What’s more, when the sun goes down and night falls, the Grand Roof Ring will be illuminated.

This picture was uploaded to social media 300 days before the Expo start date. This largest wooden building in the world is 675 meters in diameter, two kilometers in circumference, and 30 meters wide, and it creates a fantastic atmosphere.

Night tickets (3,700 JPY) allowing you to enter after 5 p.m. are around half the price of one-day tickets (7,500 JPY).
It would be a waste not to use such a romantic location as a date option!

●Go several times! We recommend season passes for families

The size of the Expo venue is around 155 ha.
This is about 40 times the size of Hanshin Koshien Stadium, or about 33 times the size of Tokyo Dome (around 4.7 ha)! It’s bigger than famous Osaka spots like USJ (around 54 ha) and Osaka Castle Park (around 105.6 ha)!

Inside the venue, there are overseas pavilions representing the cultures of their countries and private-sector pavilions sharing the technology of Japanese companies, and visitors can experience the latest technology for future society and enjoy all sorts of events. One day doesn’t cut it. 💦

The Expo is a limited-time event. You can’t visit the same Expo twice.
It’s also a chance to experience cutting-edge technology like flying cars and AI translation systems, visit pavilions from over 160 countries and regions, and make friends from around the world!

Those are yet more reasons you should revel in this once-in-a-lifetime experience to have the best time at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan with your family, friends, significant other, and coworkers next year! How about it?

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