I went to the "EXPO '70 Pavilion" opened in Osaka's Expo Memorial Park where canned coffee and LAN spread from Expo

It was held for six months from 14th March to 13th September 1970. The total number of visitors was over 60 million big eventsJapan World Exposition. Almost all the pavilions of the time have been removed and moved to the park now, but the only steel museum that remained is commemorating the Expo "EXPO '70 Pavilion"Renewal opened as.

In the hall, materials such as canned coffee, LAN (local area network), electric bicycle etc spread from the Japan World Exposition, materials that were exhibited at that time, etc. were to be seen, and then the enthusiasm of the time Even people who do not know have become fun pavilions.

Details are as below.
Tower of the sun that can be seen from the Exposition Memorial Park Station of Monorail.


To enter the EXPO '70 Pavilion, you must first enter the Expo Commemoration Park.


Entrance fee is 250 yen for high school students and 70 yen for elementary and junior high school students. I enter the ticket bought by the ticket vending machine through a machine like an automatic ticket gate at the station.


The sign of the pavilion which was placed in the park.


Exterior of EXPO '70 pavilion which renewed former Iron and Steel House.


It was like this before the renewal.


"Foyer" of the first floor entrance in the hall can be seen for free.


Part of the Expo Tower Observatory in Foyer.


The inside looks like this.



The model of the Expo Tower is decorated in the center.


Restored item of "Ikeda phone" by sculptor Francois Bachet who was exhibited at the steel museum.


A model that reproduced the venue at the time.


A Japanese government building in the shape of five circles gathering.


Mitsubishi Miraikan, which was popular for 360-degree images by Toho special effects staff. Where you can see this far for free.


When viewing the exhibit on the second floor, we will purchase a 200 yen admission ticket at the ticket vending machine inside the building.


Although it seems that there are times when numbered tickets are dealt on days when there are many people, on this day ordinarily I could buy an admission ticket side by side in front of the ticket vending machine.


A flyer can be given an admission ticket at reception. It is a print of a color that makes me feel the atmosphere at that time.


Model of the entrance zone near the hall central mouth. The tower of the sun shining eyes is impressive.


The area where materials of the time etc were gathered.


Whether it is trying to bring out the sunset atmosphere, orange lights and red walls and floors are spreading.


The adult's normal admission ticket is 800 yen.


Since the initial incoming salary of that time was 33,000 yen for the university graduate and 30,400 for the high school boys, it is not cheap even for 800 yen, but now it is a big theme park like Tokyo Disneyland and USJ It is admission fee of.


A memorial medal manufactured by the Ministry of Finance.


"Facility key" used at the completion handover ceremony.


Space theater which was closed after the exposition and was unpublished.


I could not see the seat of the theater, it was in a state that I could see from the window.


You can appreciate changing lighting etc.


A model of the steel museum at the time was also placed.


Various records arranged side by side on the wall. It seems that there was one person who gave birth at the Expo site.


Panel that was showing waiting time.


Area imitating the sun tower as theme museum.


A model of the sun's clock.


On top of the model is a grumpy face on the front of the sun's tower.


The tree of life that was inside the sun's tower had 292 body models decorated for each age.


"Swirl city" that was exhibited in "Living section". It is a model that shaped the city of the future drawn by the architect Alexei Gutnov of the Soviet Union.


"The chair of the hand" that was at the theme hall underground at that time.


The costume of the hostess who was escorting entrants with various pavilions.


It seems that foreign hostesses also appeared in the venue at that time.


Electric bicycle developed by Sanyo Electric. It is now at a level that is commercially available, but it has already existed from that time and he seems to have been lent to the press.


This is an electric car. It was used as transportation within the venue at that time.


Personal computer corner where you can see data such as pavilion's 3D model.


There are also many paper crafts that reproduced the pavilion. Soviet hall of building No. 1 number.


Toshiba IHI pavilion where Mr. Sazae was entering in the story that the family of Sazae goes to the World Expo.


It seems there were a lot of things spread from the Japan World Exposition, and it was summarized.


Yogurt. Although there was sweet yogurt until then, the Meiji Dairies staff got yoghurt fungus from yoghurt displayed at the Bulgarian palace and commercialized one year later. Plain yogurt will be released.


"Donk"Sales of French bread sold at Expo are 170 million yen. It seems that the brand name of French bread has increased due to this.


It is said that at the Japan Expo Expo, for the first time in Japan, a large-scale information and communication system was used to check the number of entrance and exit.


Can coffee developed by UCC. At that time, coffee milk with bottle was the main and there were few canned beverages, it was a situation that it could not be sold at the beginning of the development, but it seems that the order was rushing from the person who drank at the Expo site and it became explosive sales .


A long-awaited Ultra Sonic Bath (human washing machine) for troublesome work. It is an excellent one that automatically performs from washing to drying, but this has not been so popular yet.


Many pavilions have been demolished, but some have been relocated. Was leftSites that list the whereabouts of the pavilionThere is also.


At that time the materials at that time were recruited.


It was about the time we finished watching it in about an hour while shooting it was a small space compared with the size of the scale at the time but it was an exhibition that felt the energy that was in the Japan World Exposition. It is a feeling that you will have a lot of time if you only go for this pavilion on holidays, but it is a content that you can enjoy enough if you visit a drink that also takes a walk in the park.

A movie of the inside of the pavilion. There are many other materials besides those introduced above.

A picture of EXPO '70 Pavilion at Expo Park - YouTube


At the Expo Memorial Park when cherry blossoms are in bloom the cherry blossoms are full. Even so, there are still few people in the morning, but under the cherry blossoms and the plaza, after the day, the seats were lined up.


When the cherry-blossom season comes at nightCherry blossom light up is also doneSo please try going to the cherry blossoms at night.