- Dates & time
- August 30, 2026 (Sun) 11:00〜17:00
- Price & booking
- Free admission (food and goods sold separately) No booking is needed to enter. The workshops (lantern painting and woven bracelets) and the special talk show are reserved in advance: pick a date and time on the workshop booking page or the talk show booking page at Taipeinavi. Both are free, but the workshop slots for Kobe and Osaka are full and show as Soldout.
- Venue & access
- Congres Square Grand Green Osaka About 5 minutes on foot from the Umekita underground exit of JR Osaka Station, connected underground. About 8 minutes from the west exit of Hanshin Osaka-Umeda Station, or 10 minutes from the north gate of Umeda Station on the Osaka Metro Midosuji Line.
There are 12 car parks within a 12-minute walk of Congres Square Grand Green Osaka, and 2 public restrooms within 8 minutes. The map shows each with its walking time.
Facility data comes from OpenStreetMap. It does not include opening hours, fees or availability.
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Why You Should Visit
The Osaka leg of Taiwan’s Kansai tourism roadshow, run by the Taiwan Tourism Administration and the Taiwan Visitors Association. Hotels, travel agencies and airlines from across Taiwan staff promotion booths at Congres Square on the fourth floor of Grand Green Osaka South. The stage runs three sets by the traditional-instrument band mooz, tourism pitches from China Airlines and the Kaohsiung city agriculture bureau, a talk by Noko of the Instagram account Taiwan Real Life, and a tourism quiz. There is also an AI photo booth with indigenous costumes, hands-on workshops, and stalls selling Taiwanese food, crafts and tea. Admission is free and the venue connects to Osaka Station underground.
Programs
Timetable & Map
NOTE
Booking required: the talk show and both workshops are reserved in advance through the workshop and talk show pages at Taipeinavi, all free; the workshop slots for both Osaka and Kobe were already sold out as of August 19, 2026.
Second Kansai venue: August 29 (Sat) at Kobe Harborland Space Theater, with a talk by the cook Ryoko Kuwahara.
The program may change without notice.
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