Hydrogen Facility Tour Experience in Collaboration with Osaka Expo Theme Week
October 6, 2025
Observation facility for the Hydrogen Association Tour Experience
(Source: Kawasaki Heavy Industries)
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Iwatani Corporation, and Panasonic Energy (Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture) held a "Social Hydrogen Experience Tour" over four days from September 22 to 25 at the Osaka-Kansai Expo, taking participants to visit hydrogen-related facilities in the Kansai region.
This event was conducted in collaboration with the "Hydrogen Energy Park," a program allowing the public to experience hydrogen up close, organized under the "Earth and Biodiversity Future Week" at the Osaka-Kansai Expo. The Hydrogen Park was co-hosted by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), and the Japan Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Promotion Council (JH2A), and ran from September 22 to 25.
Approximately 300 people participated (organized twice daily, with a capacity of 40 people per tour), including domestic and international business partners, government officials, and high school students visiting the Osaka-Kansai Expo. Participants boarded hydrogen fuel cell-powered boats and buses and toured the facilities of each company, where hydrogen is produced, transported, stored, and utilized. Finally, they visited the Hydrogen Park at the Expo site.
The facilities included Kawasaki Heavy Industries’ hydrogen gas turbine demonstration power plant, CGS Hydrogen Kobe Energy Center, the liquefied hydrogen filling station of the CO2-free Hydrogen Supply Chain Promotion Organization (HySTRA), Hy touch Kobe, Iwatani Corporation’s hydrogen fuel cell ship, and Panasonic Energy’s nearly CO2-free dry battery production plant, Panasonic Energy Nishikinohama Plant.
Participants commented, "It is wonderful to see companies with low-carbon technologies to produce, store, and use hydrogen on a large and diverse scale cooperating in the Kansai region, setting an advanced model for deployment," and "I was surprised to see that hydrogen, which I only heard about in class, is closely connected to our daily lives as a social lifeline at places like power plants and dry battery plants, and the boats and buses were very quiet and stable."
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