Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan "Future City"
Exhibition period:
April 13 to October 13, 2025
Future City is a stage to highlight the future city of Society 5.0,
a human-centered society that balances economic advancement
with the resolution of social problems.
Future City will ask visitors various questions and provide them with the opportunity to think together
about a vision for the city of the future through an exhibition that links and fuses the cyber field and the physical field.
Furthermore, it will transcend the boundaries between companies, organizations, and industries
to demonstrate digital innovation and new forms of value that will lead to the city of the future
created by combining various insights and ideas.
The exhibit will leverage the strengths of KDDI, which solves social issues
through solutions utilizing communications infrastructure and digital twin technology,
and Hitachi, which solves social issues through its social innovation business.
Future City experience
Experience a vision of future society realized by KDDI VISION 2030 at the Future Life Expo: Future City.
As a platinum partner of the Osaka, Kansai Expo "Future Life Expo: Future City," KDDI will present a joint exhibit with Hitachi, Ltd. and offer a virtual space platform that depicts a vision of the city of the future in both the real and virtual worlds. The city of the future realized by the world of Society 5.0 will be manifested through a combination of various opinions, technologies, and ideas. KDDI is taking a participatory approach to gather many opinions.
The exhibition consists of the Mirai Theater and the Mirai Arcade.
Mirai Theater
Based on the concept that "We can change the future," this exhibit allows visitors to experience through simulation how the city of the future will change as a result of choosing their own solutions to future issues.
*Images are simulated.
Mirai Arcade
A game that enables visitors to solve the issues of modern society through their actions and experience the creation of a brighter future.
*Images are simulated.
Display at the International Exposition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1985
Over a period of six months from March 17 to September 16, 1985, KDD (at the time) exhibited a standalone KDD pavilion at the International Exposition, Tsukuba, Japan, 1985.
Participation in the Japan World Exposition (Expo 2005 Aichi Japan)
Over a six-month period from March to September 2005, KDDI provided support for the smooth operation of the Japan World Exposition (Expo 2005 Aichi Japan) through efforts using the latest IT technologies such as a comprehensive information center, reservation system, support and navigation system, and the AI-MATE hybrid communicator.
Furthermore, KDDI also sponsored a light and water show called the "Koi Pond Night Event" (largest outdoor night event in the history of Expo). A corner was set up at the venue for visitors to experience the AI-MATE communicator as well as a listening corner featuring the FM LOVEARTH official Expo 2005 Aichi Japan FM station.
AI-MATE hybrid communicator providing staff support
Source: KDDI corporate history
