16.05.05
Expo 2005
The Expo 2005 is near Nagoya this year, so I took the chance and went there…
I have to tell the truth: I actually didn’t plan on WHAT to do in the cities I chose to visit.. I just go there and try to get to see something..
The Expo was similar.. I chose Nagoya first, and then heard that the Expo is there, so I went for the Expo.
In one sentence: it was packed with people… It was impossible to get to an exhibition with less than 30 minutes waiting in the queue, and those were the fast ones..
I feared that the 4600yen ticket wasn’t worth it.. so I just strolled around and waited.. later that day it got better and I started to see some exhibitions.. Went to the USA exhibition, some South Asian exhib’s and to some of the corporate exhibitions…
I wanted to see how Germany presented itself, but Germany had the longest waiting line of all Country-exhibitions.. 2 hours!.. only the Toyota exhib was longer, there it was 2,5 hours.. and even near closing-time the German exhibiton had a waiting time of 70 minutes..
So all in all, the Expo was ok.. saw some funny stuff, but nothing really impressive.. I think that IT Job toughed me up in respect of new technology.. I am not easily impressed anymore..
The overall tone of the Expo was about preserving nature anyway, Germany did the exhibition on Bio-technologie…
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