Intex Osaka

INTEX Osaka, officially the International Exhibition Center, Osaka, stands at 1-5-102 Nanko-Kita in Suminoe-ku, Osaka, on Sakishima Island in the Cosmosquare district of Osaka Bay - a planned business and trade zone linked to the city centre by metro and the Hanshin expressway network. It opened on 1 May 1985, with Hall 6 added in October 1993, and is the largest exhibition site in western Japan and the third largest in the country by exhibition space. Its standing in the region is reinforced by the events it has carried: the 2019 G20 Osaka Summit, Sibos 2012, the Osaka Motor Show and Osaka Auto Messe. The operator reports some 3,000 events and about 100 million visitors since opening. The venue is built around six exhibition halls and a Center building, grouped around two public atriums known collectively as INTEX Plaza, which act as the circulation spine and event forecourt. Inside, the operator describes ten exhibition zones ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 sqm, several of them usable without pillars, so that shows can scale from a single hall to a full-site footprint. Total exhibition area is 72,978 sqm. Conference rooms, organiser offices and reception space sit in the Center building, and the atriums double as registration and catering areas. The halls are clear-span structures with high roofs and vehicle access at grade, which is what allows heavy machinery, vehicles and large-scale food equipment shows to move in directly. The modular zoning is the feature the operator markets most heavily, because it lets a mid-sized show avoid paying for a full hall. Access is straightforward: Nakafuto Station on the Osaka Metro Nanko Port Town Line is about a 5-minute walk away, Trade Center-mae Station about 8 to 9 minutes, and Cosmosquare Station about 10 minutes. The site is also served by buses and has on-site parking, and it sits about 30 to 40 minutes by road from central Osaka.