section_path: Transport
section_name: Transport
paragraph_text: Transport
  
  The venue for the Expo 2025 is Yumeshima, an artificial island in Osaka Bay. As this is the first Expo to be held at sea, visitors will need to land on Yumeshima (the Yumeshima approach). To get to Yumeshima, visitors will need to use public transports such as trains, shuttle buses, express buses, airport buses, bicycles, boats, and taxis. As private cars are prohibited from the island in principle, except for those using the handicapped parking lot, visitors will need to park in a nearby P&R (park and ride) parking lot and then take a shuttle bus to the island.
  
  In addition, this Expo, which is based on the concept of a "testing ground for future society," is also hosting a "Future Society Showcase Project" where visitors can experience life in the near future. As part of this, the transportation to the venue will also feature futuristic mobility equipped with cutting-edge technology, such as electric buses that can be powered while driving and hydrogen fuel cell ships.
  
  Before the opening, it was estimated that of the maximum 227,000 visitors per day, 133,000 (58.6%) would use Yumeshima Station on the Osaka Metro Chuo Line. According to estimates by the Expo Association, in the first month after the opening, the average number of visitors per day was 104,000, lower than the expected 150,000, but 76.6% of visitors used Yumeshima Station, which does not require reservations. This was mainly due to the fact that the expensive P&R (Park & Ride) was used by only 5.2% of visitors.
  
  A 3.2 km extension of the Osaka Metro Chuo Line was constructed from its former terminus at Cosmosquare Station using the Yumesaki Tunnel to Yumeshima Station, which opened on 19 January 2025.
  
  In addition, There are many Shuttle Bus routes to the Expo Site (Yumeshima Transportation terminal, Located in Front of Expo West gate) which departs from Shin-Ōsaka Station, Ōsaka Station (Umeda Station), Namba Station, Ōsaka Abenobashi Station (Tennōji Station), Nakanoshima Station, Ōsaka Uehommachi Station, Sakai Station, Sakaihigashi Station, Amagasaki Station (JR West, Hanshin), Trade Center-mae Station, Kobe-Sannomiya Station, Itami Airport, Kansai International Airport and Sakurajima Station. Seat reservation is required to get Shuttle bus by using Kansai MaaS app or web site. (except for From Sakurajima Station after 10 a.m and From Kobe-Sannomiya)