My Expo Experience

Recently Nick posted about his experience at the Osaka Expo. During the NEO break I had the chance to go there myself and it really impressed me. So, I thought I would share some of my own experiences there.

I managed to go to a lot more than I expected within a day. Yet there is so much there that I feel like I only saw a small percentage of the Expo. None the less, I managed to go to six large pavilions. Some of them really stood out such as Germany, Austria and Poland. Many of them used music, sound and technology to show off their unique ideas and visions. Germany used a mascot character as a cute audio device to teach about their ideas for cities of the future, while Austria allowed visitors to mix sounds of different instruments and create their own symphonies. There were also pavilions unique in their concept such as the Pasona pavilion with its ideas about the future of medical technology. It was also a lot of fun just to see the design of all the pavilions from the outside. It was like being in a bizarre city full of strange buildings.

There are also a lot of smaller sized pavilions that are easy and quick to get into and are for smaller countries you might not know much about. We managed to walk straight into the pavilions for Bangladesh and Cambodia. Both were a single room but well designed with good visual elements and information about the countries. We also spent some time in the commons, which very small countries might have a small space or booth. You can learn and see some fascinating things about tiny countries you might know almost nothing about.

After only a day there, I had figured out some tricks to queuing and started to understand my way around the expo. But there is still a lot I would like to see there, and I hope I may get the chance to go again.