GREEN×EXPO 2027 pavilions at a glance: from the 12 Village exhibitors to the Kanagawa Pavilion

By September 2026, GREEN×EXPO 2027 (the International Horticultural Expo 2027, Yokohama) had announced 21 pavilions and shops for its venue. Twelve are Village exhibitors, where companies and groups combine exhibits with hands-on experiences, and four are theme shops that pair a garden or plaza with a restaurant or store. The rest are three facilities built by the GREEN×EXPO Association (the Public Interest Incorporated Association International Horticultural Expo 2027) and the government of Japan, and two pavilions from Yokohama City and Kanagawa Prefecture. More pavilions are expected to be announced before opening, and we will add them here.

Village exhibitors (12)

The Village programme places corporate and group pavilions in five Villages across the venue: Urban GX Village, Craft Village, Farm & Food Village, Kids Village and SATOYAMA Village. The pavilions combine exhibits with hands-on experiences.

The Tokyu Group Pavilion is themed “GREEN LIFESTYLE 2050”, subtitled “a future grown from a seed, and connected”. It proposes a way of living where nature and the city merge. Seen from above, the building is shaped like plant seeds lying close together. Tokyu published this plan and a dedicated site on 19 March 2026.

KT GROUP Mobi+ is themed on mobility and energy. The idea is that the vehicles themselves carry energy and deliver it wherever it is needed. We have not found any announcement beyond the Association’s own page.

The NTT EAST Pavilion is themed “Well”, carrying three meanings: well-being, welcome, and planting the seeds of the future. NTT East held a groundbreaking ceremony on 8 April 2026, with construction starting in May and completion planned for December. It plans experiences built on next-generation infrastructure such as IOWN.

Obayashi Mori Sora Mirai is based on the Obayashi Group’s long-term vision, “Obayashi Sustainability Vision 2050”, and presents a world where the planet, society and people are in balance. Obayashi announced its provisional acceptance as a Village exhibitor on 19 March 2025, roughly two years before opening. It was one of the earliest such announcements.

The Mitsubishi Future Pavilion is built around the idea that “people, nature and society must coexist.” The aim is for visitors to enjoy the exhibits, be reminded why that matters, and go home with something to act on. As of September 2026, the Association’s page is the only published description.

KAJIMA TREE reuses timber from Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai’s Grand Ring. Kajima was the company that received that timber, and it uses advanced technology to rework it into a symbol of GREEN×EXPO.

Daiwa House Group Endless Heart Park is themed “Future Living made of wind, sun, water and greenery”. It carries forward the founder’s words that “the 21st century is the age of wind, sun and water”, and pictures a future scene where wind, sun, water and greenery overlap. The Association’s page likens that overlapping to a kaleidoscope. The site covers about 1,237 square metres, with design and construction by Fujita and Daiwa Lease. The name and concept were decided on 19 March 2026.

Yasashiku Naritai STUDIO reuses the steel frame (about 736 pieces), lighting and speakers from Panasonic Group’s Expo 2025 pavilion “Nomo no Kuni”, designed by architect Yuko Nagayama. It is themed on “eight-year-old adults”. In May 2026, Toho Leo also launched a community co-creation programme with Japan GX Group and the Hosome Cross-University Laboratory. The programme connects local natural capital to policy and business.

Takenaka Group Kurukuruku is themed “the circulation of life and form”. Starting from materials, it shows a future in which resources keep circulating, and Takenaka describes its goal as “a regenerative, well-being future”. Details of the exhibits have yet to be announced beyond the Association’s page.

The Sumitomo Forestry Pavilion “Hyaku no Mori” is themed “100EYES, 100FORESTS.” The experiences it offers draw on the company’s history with forests and timber since its founding in 1691. The pavilion is in Craft Village, and recruitment of around 34 attendants began on 11 May 2026. On 15 September 2026 the company published the route: a tunnel, a theatre, a museum and an upper deck, in that order (our report).

SOTETSU PARK, in Kids Village, is themed “friends and habitats”. Its centrepiece, a new 13000-series train car (car 13100), was delivered on 30 July 2026. It features a ring-shaped roof about 8 metres high and 30 metres across, plus play equipment themed on the habitats of familiar creatures.

Shimizu Forest Town is a hands-on facility where visitors learn about the planet through three actions: seeing, touching and making. Children are meant to be the main characters. No further detail has been announced beyond the Association’s page.

Theme shops (4)

These operators build a garden or plaza together with a restaurant or shop that expresses the Expo’s concept through food and goods.

The power behind “Itadakimasu” uses domestic farm produce to introduce visitors to Japan’s agriculture and food culture. HONEY HARMONY GARDEN looks at the connections among small creatures, honeybees included, and asks visitors to think with the exhibitor about the future of nature and food. ORAGA VILLAGE presents the satoyama landscape as the starting point of the Meiji Group’s business, which rests on what nature provides. The Yamazaki “Tomorrow’s Bright Table” Pavilion uses exhibits and tastings to show both the comfort of today’s everyday table and hope for the one ahead. For all four, menus, pricing and other details remain unannounced as of September 2026.

Association and government facilities (3)

These are exhibition facilities built by the organisers. Nicknames were sought in a public contest in June 2026 and announced on 15 September 2026: NEKKO for the Theme Pavilion and IROHA-GARDEN for the Horticultural Culture Pavilion (the indoor exhibition hall is HANAMEGURI). They will appear on the site map and signs.

The Theme Pavilion’s central message is “All life is connected.” Its starting point is plants, said to make up over 80% of Earth’s biomass, and it presents the latest scientific findings through art and entertainment. The aim is to encourage behaviour change grounded in Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and to show people what they can do toward a nature-positive, circular economy. On 15 September 2026 the Association described six zones (a prologue, the underground forest, the umwelt forest, the forest of awareness, the forest of connections and an epilogue). The underground forest will display the real roots of the Miracle Pine of Rikuzentakata, and Nippon Life sponsors the forest of awareness and an outdoor garden of threatened plants (our report on the nicknames).

The Horticultural Culture Pavilion is built around Japan’s own horticultural aesthetics and techniques, passed down since the Edo period, and shares them mainly through real objects and hands-on experience. Its aim is to pass on to the next generation a way of seeing that values coexistence with nature, ties to local communities, and richness of everyday life. Its exhibits fall under three themes, to know, to feel and to pass on; the “to feel” section recreates an Edo-period nursery and flower estate and rotates 37 kinds of traditional garden plants through the seasons.

Built by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the Japan Government Garden is themed “rethinking Japan’s view of nature and moving forward.” It builds on traditional Japanese garden techniques and views of nature, and adds exhibits of new farming technology and green infrastructure both indoors and outdoors.

Separate from these three, the Taisei Corporation group, a Diamond Partner, sponsors a lookout called TAISEI GREEN TERRACE in the centre of the site near the main event hall: a wooden terrace with a ramp of about 90 metres, a viewing height of about 4.5 metres and a floor area of about 800 square metres. Official creator Mika Ninagawa (Mika Ninagawa with EiM) designs the flower beds on top and the photographic floor (our report on Ninagawa’s projects).

Yokohama City and Kanagawa Prefecture pavilions (2)

The host city and the prefecture that contains it each run their own pavilion.

The Yokohama City Pavilion is built across two buildings inside Urban GX Village. Its exhibition runs from a prologue through an experience of behaviour change, an experience of advanced technology and an experience of connection to an epilogue. Together these present Yokohama’s idea of a circular future for the city and everyday life. The city began recruiting sponsor companies and groups on 21 October 2025. Ryohin Keikaku (Muji) made the staff uniforms using recycled polyester from clothing collected within Yokohama City (announced 24 August 2026). Nara Construction and Agri-oh signed a sponsorship agreement to lend a closed aquaponics system exhibit (25 August). Sotetsu Group is showing its circular-economy work, such as biodiesel fuel and composting food waste, through a diorama and capsule-toy-style displays (announced 3 September).

The Vibrant INOCHI Forest Kanagawa Pavilion is a Kanagawa Prefecture facility combining an indoor exhibition hall and a garden, themed on “every life shining.” Its mascots are a leaf character called “VIBRANTs” and a young Japanese flying squirrel named “Momoon”. Permanent exhibits include the skull of a baby blue whale and a digital globe, and the garden includes a flowerbed built with timber reused from Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai’s Grand Ring. All of this was first unveiled at a half-year-to-go announcement event on 8 September 2026.

Other facilities on the map in the brochure’s second edition

The site map in the Association’s official brochure, second edition of 15 September 2026, shows several names beyond the 21 facilities above: the Indoor Exhibition Facility HANAMEGURI (run by the Association for flower and green exhibitors and official participants), Yoichi Ochiai’s null⁴ (Tetra Null), an exhibit by the Urban Renaissance Agency (UR), and six sponsored facilities: TAISEI GREEN TERRACE (Taisei group), Meiji Yasuda’s Kenkatsu Park, the Bank of Yokohama GREEN WALL, Nippon Life’s garden of plants to keep for the future, a Suntory restaurant cooking with hydrogen, and the Macnica Greentech Messe. The brochure gives only names and renderings. Of these, we have confirmed details for TAISEI GREEN TERRACE (Ninagawa’s projects) and Nippon Life’s garden (the nicknames report). The map notes that the layout may change.

Our take

Developers, construction firms and railway companies dominate the pavilions that picture “future living”, and their aim is clearly different from that of the food-and-goods theme shops. We also noticed how much carries over from Expo 2025 Osaka-Kansai. Beyond Toho Leo’s “Yasashiku Naritai STUDIO” and KAJIMA TREE, TSP Taiyo’s work on the main gate and restaurant also reuses building materials from the Ireland Pavilion and the ORA food pavilion “Utage”. It is easy to miss if you look at one pavilion at a time, but reuse turns up across the whole venue. Detailed exhibit content and opening timing remain unannounced for many of these facilities.

We track further pavilion news on our feature page, “Pavilions”.