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Toward a future from the forest.
Throughout its 400-year history,Sumitomo has treasured the forest,and this is the spirit upon which it has grown.Respect the diversity of life dwelling on this precious planet.There is so much we can learn from the different forms of life co-living in the forest.We humans heading toward the future are also a piece of that nature.Let’s set off on a journey from the 2025 Sumitomo Pavilion and venture into a bright future where people, forest,and all living things resonate and live in harmony.

Sumitomo Pavilion Symbol Mark

Sumitomo, like its growth founded upon the Besshi Copper Mine, has continued to grow like a diverse forest.Each company of the group will come together with strength in the pavilion to become a single seed.This seed will be sowed in the hearts of each visitor and ripen with infinite possibilities for the future.This symbol shows how a “forest” shaped like an exclamation mark will start here and continue to spread wonder and excitement across nature, people, and societies now and into the future.

Architectural Design of the Sumitomo Pavilion

Inspired by the “peaks of the Besshi Mountains” in Shikoku, the foundation of Sumitomoʼs growth, the roof and façade of the pavilion is made from plywood made from “Japanese cypress from the Sumitomo Forest” and designed like the silhouette of its rolling mountain peaks. 


The exterior near the pavilionʼs entrance features “cedar from the Sumitomo Forest” which were planted in 1970, the year of the Osaka Expo. The wood is installed in layers to express “tree rings and geological layers.”
Sumitomo Pavilion

More than 1000
“Trees of the Sumitomo Forest”

The Sumitomo Pavilion, made from approximately 1,000 trees planted by our predecessors in the Sumitomo Groupʼs “Sumitomo Forest”, based on a wish to “make use of each tree and valuing each life, one tree at a time”, is a space offering the warmth and tranquility of wood.
To Face Each Life

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West Gate Zone
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The images are for illustrative purposes only. The layout and building shapes may differ in part from the actual Expo site.

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