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Suita is a city in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan, spread over the gentle Senri Hills about 15 km north of central Osaka. It is best known as the home of Expo '70, the world's fair of 1970, whose grounds are now a vast park watched over by Tarō Okamoto's Tower of the Sun, one of the most famous landmarks of modern Japan.
For centuries Suita was a small river port on the Kanzaki River. In modern times it became a beer town, with the brewery that is now Asahi's Suita plant, and a railway town with a great freight yard. From 1962 the hills to the north were turned into Senri New Town, the first large planned new town in Japan, and the Expo brought the city fame. Today Suita is home to about 380,000 people.
Spend a day in Expo '70 Commemorative Park, with the tower, the Japanese Garden and the National Museum of Ethnology. Then visit the aquarium and shops of EXPOCITY next door, catch a Gamba Osaka match, and learn about the city's ancient kilns at the Suita City Museum.
Expo '70 Commemorative Park covers 264 hectares in northern Suita, on the grounds of the world's fair held from March to September 1970. Opened in 1972, it has replanted the old pavilion sites as forest and lawns, and holds museums, a Japanese garden, a stadium and the Tower of the Sun.
Tower of the Sun is a 70-meter sculpture by artist Tarō Okamoto in the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, built as the symbol of Expo '70 with faces on its top, front and back. Its interior Tree of Life reopened to visitors in 2018, and the tower became an Important Cultural Property in 2025.
Expo '70 Japanese Garden is a 26-hectare stroll garden in the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, built by the Japanese government for Expo '70 and designed by Tanji Rokurō. Its four sections recreate the garden styles of the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern eras.
Natural and Cultural Gardens fill the heart of the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, where wide lawns and a planted forest replaced the pavilions after 1970. The park is ranked among the 100 best cherry blossom spots in Japan, and a treetop walkway and a rose garden lie inside.
National Museum of Ethnology, known as Minpaku, stands in the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, the largest ethnographic museum in Japan and a major research institute. Founded in 1974 and opened in 1977, it shows the cultures of peoples around the world through masks, tools, clothing and more.
Osaka Nihon Mingeikan is a folk crafts museum in the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, housed in the Japan Folk Crafts pavilion built for Expo '70 and reopened as a museum in 1972. Its displays of everyday crafts include pottery by Hamada Shōji, its first director, and by Kawai Kanjirō.
EXPO'70 Pavilion opened in March 2010 in the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, in the former Steel Pavilion, one of the few buildings made to outlast the fair. About 3,000 items recall Expo '70, and visitors can see the Space Theater concert hall produced by composer Tōru Takemitsu.
Suita City Museum opened in November 1992 in Shikinzan Park in Suita, telling the story of the city from prehistory to the present. Its second gallery recreates full-size kilns for Sue pottery and roof tiles, recalling the ancient kilns of Kishibe nearby, now a national historic site.
EXPOCITY opened on 19 November 2015 beside the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, on the site of the old Expoland amusement park. Built by Mitsui Fudosan around the LaLaport EXPOCITY mall, it gathers large entertainment venues, restaurants and shops in one complex.
NIFREL is a living museum in EXPOCITY in Suita, produced by the team behind Osaka's Kaiyukan aquarium and opened in November 2015. It blends an aquarium, a zoo and an art gallery, showing fish alongside birds and mammals in themed zones designed to stir the senses.
Panasonic Stadium Suita is a football stadium beside the Expo '70 Commemorative Park in Suita, built with private donations and home of J1 League club Gamba Osaka since 2016. It replaced the old Expo '70 Stadium, the club's home from 1991 to 2015, and holds 39,694 fans.
Senri New Town covers 1,160 hectares of the Senri Hills in northern Suita and neighboring Toyonaka, the first large planned new town in Japan, laid out for 150,000 people. Its first residents arrived in 1962, and its planning shaped later new towns across Japan, such as Tama in Tokyo.
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