Japan expo overview by sector

Research date: 2026-11-12. Links were accessed on that date unless labelled otherwise. This is a 54-candidate discovery map, not a complete census. Rows marked size-unverified do not yet satisfy the large-visitor requirement.

How to read the map

• The working threshold is 20,000 reported visitors or visits at a major exhibition venue. It is an analyst convention. Attendance alone does not verify venue size.
• Visitor profiles describe organizer targets unless a measured historical profile is explicitly identified. They do not prove that every visitor has purchasing authority.
• Current profile pages can describe 2027 positioning alongside separately dated 2026 results. They are not presented as measured 2026 audience breakdowns.
• Daily visits, unique registrations and totals including exhibitors are different measures. Do not rank the events by these mixed figures or add co-located totals.
• AI inferences remain explicitly labelled. A visitor listing alone does not establish that the company exhibits. Named booth examples are identified separately.

What the map suggests

AI interpretation: start with the visitor group you want to understand. Food distribution, factory equipment, professional services and public entertainment involve different buying situations. Use the visitor and exhibitor columns together, then open the edition-specific directory before choosing an event.

Coverage limits

The map covers 54 candidates across food, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, electronics, software, energy, buildings, logistics, healthcare, agriculture, education, tourism and public-interest shows. It includes regional candidates in Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, but regional venue calendars have not been searched systematically. It therefore does not establish that every major Japanese expo is included.

Some visitor profiles, historical venues and attendance figures remain unverified. The audit retains these as gaps. Several sites have moved to 2027 pages. An accessible current page is not proof of a 2026 edition.

The pilot measured about 0.4 million tokens and projected about 3.4 million for 50 candidates. This is the original pilot projection, not the final run cost.

Major trade expos in Japan: who visits and who exhibits

Research date: 2026-11-12. Sources are the organizers' own pages, reports, and press releases. Each number names its edition year, because organizers count visitors in different ways.

Overview: 31 expos by topic

Food and hospitality

FOODEX JAPAN

• Visitors. Trade only. The organizer admits food and beverage buyers, such as importers, wholesalers, retailers, hotels, restaurants, and food manufacturers, and refuses people outside the food industry and anyone under 16 (visitor page).
• Booths. Overseas companies were 2,126 of the 3,238 exhibitors in 2026 (2026 results). The organizer groups booths by product, such as seafood, sweets, seasonings, sake, frozen food, and organic food (exhibit zones).

Supermarket Trade Show

• Visitors. Trade only. In the organizer's 2026 visitor data, retail was 24.0% of visitors (supermarkets 16.0%), 15.5% were buyers, 12.9% were owners or executives, and 0.7% came from overseas (2027 exhibitor guide).
• Booths. Food and drink makers, regional producers, and suppliers of store equipment exhibit. The 2026 exhibitor list includes Ishida, Itoham and Yonekyu, Okamura, Kikkoman, Kokubu Group, Teraoka Seiko, Nissin Foods, and Mitsubishi Shokuhin (2026 report).

FOOMA JAPAN

• Visitors. Visitors are food industry people who buy or use production machines. In the organizer's 2026 visitor survey, 7.1% were chairmen or presidents, 12.0% general managers, 17.0% section managers, and 32.5% staff (2027 exhibitor page).
• Booths. Machine makers exhibit, grouped from raw material processing and food manufacturing to packaging, inspection, and hygiene. Exhibitors under raw material processing in 2026 include Yaskawa Electric, Okawara Mfg., Kikusui Seisakusho, and Tomoe Engineering (2026 exhibitor list).

HCJ (HOTERES JAPAN, CATEREX JAPAN, JAPAN FOOD SERVICE EQUIPMENT SHOW)

• Visitors. Trade only. The organizer names lodging, restaurants, contract catering and ready meals, architecture and design, spa and sauna, trading and wholesale, and retail as the main visitor industries in 2026 (exhibitor page).
• Booths. Suppliers to hotels and food service exhibit. The 2027 zones include kitchen equipment, cafe and bakery, commercial food and drink, hygiene and cleaning, tableware, sauna and spa, robots, and guest-room supplies (official site). The research did not find a 2026 list of exhibitor names.

Electronics, IT, and semiconductors

CEATEC

• Visitors. Entry is free with registration (overview). In the organizer's 2025 report, managers were 29.0% and executives 9.4% of visitors, and 1,230 of 98,884 registered visitors came from overseas (2025 report).
• Booths. Large Japanese electronics and IT companies, sector pavilions, startups, and university labs exhibit. The 2026 exhibitor list includes Sharp, NEC, Aisin, Panasonic, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT, and SoftBank (2026 exhibitor list).

Interop Tokyo

• Visitors. The organizer targets user companies in manufacturing, services, finance, construction, and logistics, plus telecom carriers, data center operators, executives, and IT system managers (exhibitor recruitment page).
• Booths. Network equipment makers, telecom carriers, security vendors, and cloud providers exhibit. The 2026 list includes NEC, NTT DATA, NTT East, KDDI, Cisco Systems, and Keysight Technologies (2026 exhibitor list).

Japan IT Week Spring

• Visitors. Business visitors only. By job rank at the April 2026 show, 12% were executives, 13% general managers, 17% section managers, and 38% staff and others (exhibitor page).
• Booths. Software development contractors, embedded and IoT vendors, security vendors, and data center suppliers exhibit (show overview). The spring 2026 directory, shared with three co-held shows, includes Fujitsu, Cybozu, Trend Micro, Sky, and Canon IT Solutions (2026 directory).

SEMICON Japan

• Visitors. SEMI addresses engineers, researchers, and developers first, then executives, sales and business development staff, investors, and students (about page).
• Booths. Companies from the whole chip-making process exhibit: equipment, materials, inspection, packaging, and design (exhibits page). The research read only the first alphabetical entries of the 2026 directory, so it names no large exhibitors (2026 directory).

NEPCON JAPAN (with Automotive World)

• Visitors. Business visitors only. RX Japan targets design, development, and production engineers at makers of electronic equipment, cars and car electronics, robots, medical devices, and semiconductors (exhibitor page).
• Booths. Suppliers to electronics and car makers exhibit. The January 2026 directory, shared with Automotive World and Factory Innovation Week, includes FUJI, Yamaha Motor, Senju Metal Industry, OMRON, Murata Manufacturing, TDK, and ROHM (2026 directory).

Inter BEE

• Visitors. JEITA targets broadcasters, post-production and production companies, audio and PA firms, cable TV firms, stage and lighting firms, and content distribution companies (outline).
• Booths. Makers and distributors of cameras, audio gear, lighting, and media software exhibit. The 2026 list includes Sony, Panasonic, Canon, NEC, Amazon Web Services Japan, Ikegami Tsushinki, Blackmagic Design, and Roland (2026 exhibitor information).

Machinery, robots, logistics, and packaging

JIMTOF (Japan International Machine Tool Fair)

• Visitors. Factory people attend. In 2024 about 75% of visitors came from manufacturing and 16% from trading companies and dealers, and design and engineering (24.2%) and production (20.9%) were the largest job groups among domestic visitors (2024 final report).
• Booths. Machine tool builders took 52.3% of booths in 2024, followed by cutting tools, accessories, and measuring equipment. The 2024 exhibitor list includes FANUC, DMG MORI, Yamazaki Mazak, Okuma, Makino, Amada, Mitsubishi Electric, and Mitutoyo (2024 final report).

International Robot Exhibition (iREX)

• Visitors. In the organizers' 2025 visitor survey, the largest industries were machinery and tools (13.8%), electrical and electronics (13.5%), trading companies (11.8%), and automobiles and parts (9.6%), and the largest job type was sales (21.0%) (2025 results).
• Booths. Industrial robot makers, service robot makers, and robot parts suppliers exhibit. The 2025 list includes FANUC, Yaskawa Electric, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Nachi-Fujikoshi, ABB, Seiko Epson, and DAIHEN (2025 exhibitor list).

Manufacturing World Tokyo

• Visitors. Business visitors only. RX Japan names the design, development, manufacturing, production engineering, purchasing, and information systems departments of manufacturers (official site).
• Booths. Sellers of parts, equipment, measurement products, and design and production software exhibit. The 2026 directory includes THK, MISUMI, KEYENCE, Oriental Motor, Dassault Systemes, and Autodesk (2026 directory).

Logis-Tech Tokyo

• Visitors. The organizers expect executives and managers of logistics, production, information systems, and purchasing from all industries, including transport and warehousing, machinery, retail and wholesale, and food (target page).
• Booths. Makers of conveying, sorting, and storage equipment, logistics software vendors, and logistics facility developers exhibit (target page). Exhibitors that gave seminars in 2026 include FANUC, Panasonic Connect, NEC, Prologis, Nippon GLP, Geek+, and Rapyuta Robotics (2026 seminars).

TOKYO PACK

• Visitors. In 2024 registered visitors came from the container and packaging industry (24.6%), food, beverage, agriculture, and fisheries (20.4%), and distribution, trading, and logistics services (15.5%) (2024 report).
• Booths. Makers of packaging materials and containers were the largest exhibitor class in 2024 (156), then packaging machine makers (83). The 2024 list includes Dai Nippon Printing, TOPPAN, Rengo, Toyo Seikan Group Holdings, Omori Machinery, and Anritsu (2024 report).

Automotive

Japan Mobility Show (Bizweek in 2026)

• Visitors. Bizweek 2026 was a free business event, co-located with CEATEC, for startups and companies to find partners (Bizweek closing release). The 2025 full show had press days and public days (2025 release).
• Booths. More than half of the 218 Bizweek 2026 exhibitors were startups and university labs, next to car makers and parts makers such as Toyota, Nissan, SUBARU, and Yamaha Motor (Bizweek closing release, 2026 exhibitor page). The 2025 full show list includes Toyota, Nissan, Honda, BMW, BYD, Hyundai, DENSO, and Bridgestone (2025 exhibitor list).

Automotive Engineering Exposition Yokohama

• Visitors. Engineers attend. By industry in 2026, 33.7% came from auto parts, 18.1% from automakers, and 9.7% from electrical and electronics, and by job 20.3% were in design and 17.3% in testing, research, and prototyping (2026 report).
• Booths. Automakers, parts suppliers, material makers, and test and measurement firms exhibit. The 2026 list includes Toyota, Nissan, Honda, DENSO, Aisin, Bosch, Yazaki, and HORIBA (2026 report).

Tokyo Auto Salon

• Visitors. Mostly consumers. In the organizer's 2026 web survey, 86.0% of respondents were male, 67.0% lived in Kanto, 54.5% were general company employees, and 10.0% were students (2026 event report).
• Booths. Tuning shops, parts makers, wheel and tire makers, and automakers exhibit. The 2026 report lists Suzuki, SUBARU and STI, BMW, Volkswagen Japan, TOYO TIRES, BBS Japan, and Liberty Walk (2026 event report).

Energy and construction

SMART ENERGY WEEK (spring)

• Visitors. RX Japan targets power and gas utilities, power producers and developers, general contractors and house builders, government, and finance and investors (show hub).
• Booths. Equipment and material suppliers for each energy type exhibit (exhibit page). The spring 2026 floor map shows Toyota, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Iwatani, JERA, Huawei, CATL, BYD, Tesla, and JinkoSolar (2026 floor map).

JAPAN BUILD Tokyo

• Visitors. Business visitors only. RX Japan says specialists in development, design, construction work, management, and operation in the construction industry attend (about page).
• Booths. Building material makers, housing equipment makers, and construction software vendors exhibit. The December 2026 directory includes Panasonic Electric Works, YKK AP, AGC, Daikin, Daiwa House, Obayashi, Topcon, and ANDPAD (2026 directory).

Retail, gifts, and beauty

NIKKEI MESSE (RETAILTECH JAPAN, JAPAN SHOP, and others)

• Visitors. For RETAILTECH JAPAN, Nikkei targets department stores, supermarkets, convenience stores, specialty chains, wholesalers, and mail-order operators (RETAILTECH JAPAN page).
• Booths. POS and payment vendors, retail system integrators, and store fixture makers exhibit. The RETAILTECH JAPAN 2026 list includes NEC Group, Toshiba Tec, Panasonic Connect, Sharp, Smaregi, and VusionGroup (2026 exhibitor list).

Tokyo International Gift Show

• Visitors. Trade buyers attend. Spring 2026 visitors were 19.9% wholesalers, 13.8% makers, 12.6% specialty shops, 6.2% mail order, and 4.7% department stores, and 1.7% came from overseas (visitor data).
• Booths. Makers and importers of giftware and household goods exhibit, in categories such as design goods, home furnishing, stationery, accessories, and tableware (outline). Autumn 2026 contest winners include ROYAL DELFT, Liv Heart, Yoshitoku, and ROBOTIME JAPAN (autumn 2026 page).

COSME Week Tokyo

• Visitors. RX Japan names cosmetics makers and new entrants for the development show, domestic and overseas buyers for the cosmetics show, and salons and retailers for the marketing and hair care shows (about page).
• Booths. Ingredient suppliers, container makers, OEM manufacturers, and cosmetics brands exhibit. The 2026 directory includes istyle, Asanuma Corporation, Ichimaru Pharcos, API, and KOTRA (2026 directory).

Pharma and care equipment

INTERPHEX Week Tokyo

• Visitors. RX Japan says pharmaceutical makers, cosmetics makers, and regenerative medicine companies attend (overview).
• Booths. Suppliers of production equipment, ingredients, lab instruments, and contract manufacturing exhibit (overview). The 2026 directory includes Asahi Kasei, AGC, Azbil, AS ONE, Iwatani, Kaneka, WuXi Biologics, and Agilent Technologies (2026 directory).

H.C.R. (International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition)

• Visitors. Entry is free with advance registration (overview). The research found no 2026 breakdown of visitors by occupation.
• Booths. Makers and distributors of wheelchairs, beds, bathing and toilet products, welfare vehicles, and care software exhibit. The 2026 list includes Toyota, Nissan, Suzuki, Daihatsu, Paramount Bed, France Bed, TOTO, and Panasonic (2026 exhibitor list).

Games, anime, cameras, and travel

Tokyo Game Show

• Visitors. Two audiences. The business days are for game industry people (business day page), and the public days are open to paying visitors (ticket page).
• Booths. Game publishers, hardware makers, indie developers, game schools, and business service suppliers exhibit. The 2026 list includes Capcom, Konami, Square Enix, Sega and Atlus, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, and Microsoft Japan (2026 exhibitor list).

AnimeJapan

• Visitors. The public days are for anime fans. The business days admit only people who come for business meetings or to collect anime content information for business (business registration).
• Booths. Anime producers, studios, broadcasters, and streaming services exhibit. The 2026 public-day list includes Aniplex, KADOKAWA, Toei Animation, TOHO animation, Bandai Namco Filmworks, Netflix, and MAPPA (2026 exhibitor lists).

CP+ (Camera and Photo Imaging Show)

• Visitors. Mostly hobbyists. In the organizer's 2026 venue-visitor data, 49.2% were company employees outside the photo trade, 5.5% professional photographers, 4.9% staff of equipment makers, and 1.1% from overseas (2026 report).
• Booths. Camera and lens makers and accessory brands exhibit. The 2026 list includes Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fujifilm, LUMIX (Panasonic), OM Digital Solutions, Tamron, and Insta360 (2026 report).

Tourism EXPO Japan

• Visitors. Two trade and press days come first, then two public days (official site). In 2026 the trade and press days drew 31,510 and 38,518 visitors and the public days 61,394 and 51,956 (2026 results release).
• Booths. National tourism organizations, Japanese prefectures and municipalities, airlines, and travel companies exhibit (2027 exhibitor page). The 2026 booth award winners include Fukui Prefecture, Korea Tourism Organization, Taiwan Visitors Association, and Hong Kong Tourism Board (2026 award release).

Education and startups

EDIX Tokyo

• Visitors. The organizer says universities, boards of education, elementary, junior high, and high schools, and cram schools attend in large numbers (exhibitor page).
• Booths. IT and device vendors, telecom carriers, and educational publishers exhibit. The 2026 directory includes Apple Japan, Adobe, NTT East, Otsuka Shokai, Elecom, NEC Personal Computers, and Oxford University Press (2026 directory).

SusHi Tech Tokyo

• Visitors. On the two business days, 28.5% of participants were from startups, 22.1% from government, 20.0% from large corporations, and 5.1% from venture capital and investors (2026 report). The third day was a public day with 25,096 participants (2026 report).
• Booths. Startups from Japan and overseas exhibit. The 2026 report names Kyoto Fusioneering, TBM, LegalOn Technologies, CureApp, WOTA, TechMagic, Tenchijin, and Helical Fusion (2026 report).