Sumitomo Pavilion Day - imase × Sumitomo Pavilion, Special Live "SPROUT"
Hello from the Sumitomo Pavilion.
On Friday, August 1, 2025, the Sumitomo Pavilion will host a one-day-only special event,
imase × Sumitomo Pavilion Special Live, “SPROUT”.
At the Sumitomo Pavilion, we promote “co-creation collaborations” with a wide variety of creators, artists, and companies from Japan and around the world. These collaborations include the development of uniforms and exhibition content.The Sumitomo Pavilion promotes “collaboration” through exhibition of uniforms or development of contents with various creators/artists from Japan and abroad.
On Sumitomo Pavilion Day, we will be hosting “SPROUT”, a one-day-only dream collaboration with imase, an artist with wide fanbases around the world.
We invite you to witness this special moment, where everyone gathered becomes one, and a new “SPROUT” — a symbolic step toward the future — begins to emerge.
Event Overview
＜Title＞
Sumitomo Pavilion Day imase× Sumitomo Pavilion Special Live, “SPROUT”
＜Date＞
August 1, 2025 (Fri) Entrance 16:00 Start: 17:00 End: 18:30 (scheduled)
＜Place＞
EXPO2025 Osaka, Kansai, EXPO Hall “Shining Hat”
https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/expo-map-index/main-facilities/expohall/
＜Capacity＞
1,906 Persons
＜Artist＞
imase
＜Access＞
Reservation required
How to Make a Reservation
Please proceed to reservation and lottery entry via the
“Sumitomo Pavilion Day” page on the EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan Visitors website:
https://www.expovisitors.expo2025.or.jp/events/88d98358-d213-43e1-b171-3bcec211a828
※The two-month advance lottery is scheduled to run from Thursday, May 1 to Saturday, May 31, 2025.
※For making a reservation and applying a lottery, ExpoID and Admission tickets are required.
※To enter the lottery or attend this event, you must also make an advance reservation for your visit date and time.
※Please note that reservations for the “Sumitomo Pavilion experience“ and “PLANT A TREE“ are separate from this event.
(For reference)
Please also check the official EXPO 2025 website for the Reservation and Lottery Guide.
imase Profile
From Gifu Prefecture, a 24-year-old male artist of the new generation. Only 1 year from starting his musical
endeavors, his tracks went viral on TikTok, leading to his major debut in Dec. 2021. His track, “NIGHT DANCER” entered the TOP20 on Korean streaming site “Melon”, a first-time feat for a J-POP title, while also ranking in at 31st place on the Spotify viral chart Top 50 creating buzz worldwide. Recipient of the Excellent Work Award at the 65th Japan Record Awards. imase was also the first Japanese artist to appear and win an award at the MMA 2023 and CCMA 2023 in Korea, spreading his creative wings in Japan and overseas. In 2025, he will set out on his first nationwide hall tour from April and is scheduled to perform at the Nihon Budokan for the first time in July.
Official website: https://www.imase-official.com/?lang=en
