Belgian Pavilion closes Expo 2025 Osaka with pride — and a Bronze Award
Osaka, 13 October 2025 — As Expo 2025 Osaka comes to a close today, the Belgian Pavilion celebrates the end of an extraordinary journey marked by connection, creativity, and achievement. Over six months, the pavilion welcomed an estimated 900 000 visitors, hosted more than 140 events including 66 musical concerts, Belgian Architecture and Design week, Wallonia week, Food & Drinks week, Flemish week, Peace Human Security and Dignity week, Health & Well-Being week and Brussels week and of course our Belgian Pavilion National Day, organised 1024 group visits and received 42 VIP guests, offering each of them a taste of Belgium’s innovation, culture, and hospitality under the theme “Human Regeneration”.
Belgium’s presence at Expo 2025 has been a success story both in content and in spirit. The pavilion’s restaurant Revive served 150 000 guests, the food truck 400 000 visitors and its boutique welcomed more than 200 000 customers, bringing the flavours and craftsmanship of Belgium to Japan and to the world.
Additionally the Belgian pavilion has sold:
The Belgian Pavilion also had the honour of receiving the Bronze Award from the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the category “Theme Interpretation – Self-built pavilions - Type A (larger than 1,500m2)”. This award recognises the pavilion that best embodies the Expo’s theme “Designing Future Society for Our Lives.” Competing among larger nations and bigger budgets, Belgium was distinguished for the excellence and coherence of both its architectural design and conceptual storytelling, reflecting the depth and humanity of its subtheme, “Saving Lives.”
“This recognition is a tribute to Belgium’s knowhow and creativity, to the dedication of our teams, and to the spirit of collaboration that made this pavilion possible,” said Pieter De Crem, Commissioner General of the Belgian Pavilion. “Today, as the Expo closes its doors, we look back with pride and gratitude and forward with hope for the future that this Expo helped to inspire.”
As the final visitors leave messages of gratitude and farewell in the pavilion’s Stamp Room, the atmosphere is one of joyful melancholy: the shared emotion of an extraordinary chapter coming to its end.
The Belgian Pavilion’s story at Expo 2025 Osaka will live on through the people who made it, the connections it created, and the vision it shared: a future where science, innovation, and humanity come together to save and celebrate life.