Instead of exposing myself to the madness of going to the Expo 25 thing while staying in Osaka, I did the much more relaxed, cheaper and probably more interesting alternative and visited the Expo 70 memorial park. I praised the sun and marvelled at the miniatures. Recommended for everyone liking retrofuture and the time where we still believed technology is here to save the day.
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Inside the sun tower, looking at the tree of life from below. Very colorful lighting, red walls, a green tree, yellow and orange jellyfish and other simple lifeforms hanging from it.
Very large Small scale model of the 1970 Osaka Expo.
Costumes from the Mitsubishi pavilion from 1970s Osaka Expo, Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter variants. Dresses with red and white designs with some blue accents.
Taro Okamotos Sun Tower from afar standing in a park on a lawn. Basically a sculpture of a long white alien dude, with two pointy arms on each side, one angry looking face on its stomach and a golden round face on the top.