Green Expo 2027 Yokohama: ¥4,900 Tickets and 3 Bookings
The official name is the International Horticultural Expo 2027, Yokohama, Japan, written GREEN×EXPO 2027. The GREEN×EXPO 2027 official event overview lists 192 days, and last admission is 21:00.
What you will see at GREEN×EXPO 2027
GREEN×EXPO 2027 is an A1 expo, the highest class of international horticultural expo. AIPH approved it and BIE recognised it. The theme is Scenery of the Future for Happiness. More than 70 countries and international organisations, every prefecture in Japan and more than 500 companies and organisations have signed up.
The photo shows Minato Mirai in central Yokohama; the expo site is inland, about 2 km from Seya Station. The U.S. military returned this site of about 242 hectares in 2015. The expo uses about 100 hectares, with 80 hectares for the main event area.
| Place | GREEN×EXPO 2027 site (former Kamiseya Communication Facility) |
|---|---|
| Price | One-Day Ticket: adults JPY 4,900 in advance, JPY 5,500 from 19 March 2027; ages 3 and under free |
| Hours | 19 March to 26 September 2027, 9:30 to 21:30, last admission 21:00 |
| Access | Booked shuttle bus from Seya Station North Exit, about 10 min; or walk about 2 km, 25-30 min |
| Official site | GREEN×EXPO 2027 official event overview |
Flower and greenery exhibits
The GREEN×EXPO 2027 official flower and greenery exhibits page counted 388 exhibitors as of 9 October 2026. The list includes 177 outdoor exhibitors, 21 indoor exhibitors for the whole expo and 225 short-term indoor exhibitors, with some in more than one group. The short-term indoor exhibitors change every 9 days.
Two pavilions and a river valley
The Theme Pavilion, with design supervised by architect Kengo Kuma, uses projection mapping to show how plants connect. Plan about 30 minutes inside. The Horticultural Pavilion recreates an Edo-period nursery garden, called a hanayashiki, and takes about 45 minutes. Each one is about 15 minutes’ walk from the gate, according to the GREEN×EXPO 2027 official exhibits FAQ (Japanese).
Near the gate, the Aizawa River outdoor exhibit changes with the season. Wheat ripens in May, sunflowers bloom in August and September, and rice grows in the fields late in the expo. The flower and greenery exhibits, both pavilions and the Japan Pavilion and Garden cost nothing beyond the admission ticket. Shops cost extra.
How to buy Green Expo 2027 tickets from abroad
You can buy from abroad. The official ticket website works outside Japan and has an English display. To register, you enter an email address, then your name, preferred language and country of residence.
| Ticket | Adult 18+ | Youth 12–17 | Child 4–11 |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-Day Ticket, advance (until 18 March 2027) | 4,900 | 3,000 | 1,400 |
| One-Day Ticket, regular (from 19 March 2027) | 5,500 | 3,300 | 1,500 |
| Night Ticket (entry after 17:00) | 3,500 | 1,900 | 900 |
| Summer Pass (1 July to 31 August) | 12,000 | 7,000 | 3,000 |
| Season Pass (whole expo) | 28,000 | 16,000 | 6,500 |
| Special Discount Ticket | 2,800 | 1,700 | 800 |
The table above lists all six ticket types from the GREEN×EXPO 2027 official admission ticket prices page. Ages count as of 1 April 2027; for visits in March 2027, your age on 1 April 2026 applies. Children aged three and under enter free without a ticket. There is no senior discount.
Paying from overseas
The official site takes AMEX, Diners Club, JCB, MasterCard and Visa, as one-time payments only. If a payment fails, the GREEN×EXPO 2027 official ticket FAQ lists a card without 3D Secure set up as the first likely reason, so check with your card issuer. Convenience store payment works only inside Japan.
The official site sells e-tickets only, up to 14 per transaction. People under 16 need a parent or guardian to buy for them. Refunds are not given as a rule, and you cannot switch ticket types.
You can transfer an unused ticket to family or friends from My Tickets, and the link stays valid for 24 hours. The Ticket Sales Management Centre answers on +81 (0)570-01-8789, weekdays 10:00–17:00.
Which ticket pays off
japan-japan.com did the sums from the official adult prices, and the illustration above matches each plan to a ticket. The advance One-Day Ticket saves 600 yen against the regular price. A Season Pass at JPY 28,000 beats advance day tickets from the 6th visit. Five visits cost JPY 24,500 and six cost JPY 29,400. A Summer Pass at JPY 12,000 wins from the 3rd visit, since two visits cost JPY 9,800 and three cost JPY 14,700.
The Night Ticket costs JPY 3,500 for adults, 2,000 yen less than a regular One-Day Ticket. It gives up to 4 hours 30 minutes, from 17:00 to closing at 21:30. Both passes need a registered face photo, which staff check at the gate. Once you register the photo, you cannot transfer the pass.
The three bookings: entry time, shuttle bus, exhibits
A ticket alone does not get you in. You need up to three bookings, made on two different websites. Entry bookings opened on 18 September 2026, first come, first served, and cover every day of the expo.
The illustration shows the order that works from abroad: ticket, entry time, shuttle bus, then saved QR codes.
1. Entry time on the ticket site
Choose an entry slot at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 13:30 or 14:30. A 17:00 slot also takes Night Tickets. Each slot has a cap based on expected crowds. You can enter any time that day after your booked time. Except for the Season Pass and Summer Pass, you can change your booking up to three times. Your entry QR code appears only after you book.
2. Shuttle bus on a separate site
The shuttle bus has its own booking site at cs.shuttle-bus.expo2027yokohama.or.jp, with its own email and password. The GREEN×EXPO 2027 official transport FAQ (Japanese) sets the rules. You book the outbound and return trips separately, one of each per day, for up to 40 people per booking. Pay by credit card; if seats remain, you can book until 5 minutes before the meeting time.
Cancel free until 17:00 the day before. From then until 5 minutes before the meeting time, the fee is 50% of the fare. Slots to the site run every 30 minutes from 8:30 to 13:00, then hourly. Slots back run hourly from 12:00 to 15:00, then every 30 minutes until 21:30. Booking help is on 045-900-6429, weekdays 10:00 to 17:00, in Japanese.
3. Viewing reservations for some exhibits
Some exhibits will take same-day viewing reservations. Each ticket gets one exhibit, once a day. Slots open in three rounds through the day, and you can reserve before you enter. Cancel up to 15 minutes before your slot.
Carry both QR codes, entry and shuttle, as screenshots or printouts. Mobile signal at the venue may be poor.
Getting to Green Expo 2027: four shuttle stations
The nearest station is Seya on the Sotetsu Main Line. The English Access page lists the shuttle buses with no details. The four stations, the fares and the booking rules appear only on the GREEN×EXPO 2027 official access page (Japanese).
The illustration matches your starting point to a shuttle station. Seya and Mitsukyo are on the Sotetsu Main Line with no change from Yokohama Station.
| Shuttle station | Rail line | Bus to the site | Peak frequency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seya | Sotetsu Main Line | About 10 min (about 2 km) | Every 1.5–3 min |
| Mitsukyo | Sotetsu Main Line | About 15 min (about 4 km) | Every 2–6 min |
| Minami-machida Grandberry Park | Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line | About 20 min (about 4 km) | Every 1–3 min |
| Tokaichiba | JR Yokohama Line | About 25 min (about 6 km) | Every 1–3 min |
Buses board at each station’s North Exit. Signs at the stops will be in Japanese and English, and the Japanese reads シャトルバス乗り場 (shatoru basu noriba, shuttle bus stop). The fare is 200 yen one way for adults and 100 yen for children aged 1 to under 12. Buses run 8:30 to 22:30, and traffic can make them late.
From the airports, Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto
First get to Yokohama. Our Haneda Airport to Yokohama page lists the Keikyu Line at about 23 minutes and 370 yen to Yokohama Station. On the Narita Airport to Yokohama route, the Airport Limousine bus takes 85–100 minutes for 4,000 yen, and the Narita Express costs 4,480 yen. From Tokyo Station, the JR Tokaido Line takes 25 minutes for 530 yen, as our Tokyo to Yokohama page shows.
The fastest Osaka to Yokohama trip is the Nozomi, 2 hours 3 minutes from Shin-Osaka to Shin-Yokohama for 14,390 yen with a reserved seat. The Kyoto to Yokohama Nozomi takes 1 hour 49 minutes for 13,500 yen. Shin-Yokohama is on the JR Yokohama Line, so Tokaichiba is the easy shuttle station from there.
The photo shows Seya Station on the Sotetsu Main Line, the closest stop to the site. From Yokohama Station, Sotetsu charges 272 yen to Seya by IC card and 241 yen to Mitsukyo. Add the 200 yen shuttle and one adult pays 472 yen from Yokohama Station to the site, or 944 yen there and back. A Suica or PASMO card covers the train, and our IC cards guide explains which one to buy.
Walking, taxis, cars and direct buses
You can also walk from Seya Station. The recommended route along Ring Road 4 is about 2 km and takes 25–30 minutes. For the way back, taxis queue at a stand near the main gate, and there is no drop-off area for private cars. Direct buses are planned from Yokohama Station, Shin-Yokohama Station, the Minato Mirai and Kannai area, and Haneda Airport. As of 14 October 2026, their times and fares were still being arranged. Car parks need booking and cost 5,000 yen on weekdays and 7,000 yen on weekends and holidays.
Luggage, payment and language on the day
Leave your suitcase somewhere else. Bags go through an X-ray at the gate, and anything larger than 600 mm wide, 400 mm high and 900 mm deep cannot come in. Suitcases on wheels and carts are banned whatever their size. So are wheeled backpacks, even ones with removable wheels.
The illustration sorts what passes the gate from what does not. The organiser’s visitor rules ban all alcohol, opened or not, and drinks in bottles and cans. Plastic bottles and your own water bottle are fine. Selfie sticks are banned except palm-sized ones, and so are tripods, drones, and animals and plants other than assistance dogs.
Where to leave a suitcase
The GREEN×EXPO 2027 official venue rules FAQ (Japanese) asks you not to bring large luggage on the shuttle bus. Coin lockers at Haneda Airport start from 400 yen a day in 5 sizes. Those at Narita Airport also start from 400 yen, in 3 sizes. Sotetsu’s pages for Seya and Mitsukyo stations also list coin lockers, and our guide to coin lockers in Japan covers sizes. You can also send bags ahead with luggage forwarding in Japan.
Paying and getting help
Food and shops inside the site will be cashless in principle, and which payments work is still being decided. A convenience store is planned. Both pavilions will have signs in Japanese and English, plus audio guides in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean. Multilingual help across the rest of the site is still being planned. Shuttle buses are mostly low-floor and take wheelchairs, so choose the number of wheelchair users when you book.
When to go to Green Expo 2027: busy days, crowds and weather
Go on a weekday outside Golden Week if you can. The official transport plan, published in July 2026, sorts the 192 days into four types and estimates visitors for each.
| Item | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| A: weekdays to summer | 50,000 visitors a day | 80 days |
| B: Golden Week and late-summer weekdays | 56,000 visitors a day | 47 days |
| C: other weekends and holidays | 79,000 visitors a day | 46 days |
| D: busiest days | 105,000 visitors a day | 19 days |
The chart shows the gap. Type A weekdays, 80 days up to the summer holidays, expect about 50,000 visitors a day. Type B, weekdays in Golden Week and from 20 July, covers 47 days at about 56,000. Type C, weekends and holidays outside the busy period, covers 46 days at about 79,000. Type D, the 19 busiest days, expects about 105,000, or 2.1 times a type A weekday.
Of the 192 days, 127 are weekdays. The 19 busy days in 2027 start with 29 April and 2, 3, 23, 29 and 30 May. Then come 6 and 13 June, 14 and 15 August, and 4, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25 and 26 September. Golden Week 2027 starts with Showa Day on Thursday 29 April, then gives 5 days off from 1 to 5 May. Our list of public holidays in 2027 shows the other long weekends.
Within a day, arrivals are expected to peak in the morning and departures to build from about the evening. By 18 September 2026, 2,609,562 tickets had been sold, so book your entry slot and shuttle as soon as your dates are fixed.
Weather from March to September
The expo opens in cherry blossom season. Yokohama’s average first bloom is 25 March, with full bloom on 1 April, according to our cherry blossom dates by city. The table below uses Tokyo averages from the Japan Meteorological Agency for 1991–2020.
| Month | Average high in Tokyo | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| March | 14.2°C | 116.0 mm |
| April | 19.4°C | 133.7 mm |
| May | 23.6°C | 139.7 mm |
| June | 26.1°C | 167.8 mm |
| July | 29.9°C | 156.2 mm |
| August | 31.3°C | 154.7 mm |
| September | 27.5°C | 224.9 mm |
August is Tokyo’s hottest month, and September is the wettest. In summer, a Night Ticket from 17:00 lets you skip the midday heat. Our pages on Tokyo in April and Tokyo in August suggest what to wear.
What 87 people in Japan plan: when, how and where after
Kyoudokoiku (kyoudokoiku.com) surveyed 87 people living in Japan online on 10–13 October 2026. Kyoudokoiku is a Japanese travel site from the same team as japan-japan.com. The full Japanese results are in the Kyoudokoiku survey on GREEN×EXPO 2027 crowds and tickets.
When they plan to go
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| March (from the 19th) | 9.8 % |
| April | 34.1 % |
| May | 36.6 % |
| June | 2.4 % |
| July | 7.3 % |
| September (to the 26th) | 9.8 % |
The chart shows the month each person most wants to go. Combined, 70.7% of the 41 respondents who had decided picked April or May. Of the 63 respondents who plan to go, 76.2% plan to avoid July and August. A weekday was the choice of 46.7% of the 60 respondents who had decided. And 68.3% of the 60 respondents who plan to go do not plan to go during a holiday period.
How they plan to get there
Of the 39 respondents who had decided, 41.0% plan to take a train and a shuttle bus. Another 35.9% plan to drive. Among 18 people who had picked a shuttle station, 6 chose Seya, 5 Minami-machida Grandberry Park, 4 Mitsukyo and 3 Tokaichiba. Of all 87 respondents, 86.2% did not know that the visit, shuttle and car park need separate bookings.
Arrival time and length of stay
Combined, 85.4% of the 41 respondents who had decided plan to arrive at opening or in the morning. Of the 35 respondents who had decided how long to stay, 74.3% plan to spend 2 to 6 hours at the venue.
Where they want to go afterwards
Asked where they would stop after the venue, respondents put Yokohama Chinatown, in the photo, first. It was picked by 36.8% of all 87 respondents. Minato Mirai came next at 28.7%, then Red Brick Warehouse at 24.1%.
Advice for friends from abroad
Combined, 76.1% of the 46 respondents who had decided would suggest April or May to someone coming from abroad. Asked what visitors from other countries should see, 60.9% of all 87 respondents named Japanese gardens such as the Japan Government Garden. Bonsai and ikebana came next, named by 48.3%.
A woman in her 30s in Chubu and Hokuriku plans to go between March and May. She wrote: “At that time of year, walking 2 km each way from the station won’t bother me”. A man in his 30s from Tokyo’s 23 wards wrote: “A system that lets you book everything at once would help”.
This was an open online call, so the results do not represent everyone in Japan.
FAQ
Can I buy Green Expo 2027 tickets from outside Japan?
Yes. The official ticket website works from abroad and has an English display, and some authorised agencies also sell to buyers abroad. Pay by credit card with 3D Secure set up, because convenience store payment works only in Japan.
Do I need to book a time slot to enter Green Expo 2027?
Yes. Every ticket needs a visit date and time booking, and the entry QR code appears only after you book. Slots start at 9:30 and run hourly to 14:30, with a 17:00 slot for evening entry.
How do I get to Green Expo 2027 from Tokyo?
Take the JR Tokaido Line from Tokyo Station to Yokohama, about 25 minutes for 530 yen. Change to the Sotetsu Main Line for Seya, then ride your booked shuttle bus, about 10 minutes for 200 yen.
Can I bring a suitcase to Green Expo 2027?
No. Suitcases on wheels and wheeled backpacks are banned at the gate whatever their size. Leave large luggage in a locker, or send it to your hotel, before you board the shuttle.
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