The response to the World Exposition in Osaka was overwhelming: the number of visitors exceeded an incredible 64 million, the most ever recorded at a World Exposition. When considering the scale of the exposition, one needs to take into consideration that the visitor numbers average was around 350.000 per day - more than four times the number estimated for the 2005 Expo (81.000 visitors per day).
The Expo site at Senri was connected to the city of Osaka by a 4-car monorail built by Hitachi-Alweg (check out the photos - it's not surprising that the Linimo looks quite similar to that monorail). One eyecatcher was located directly at the entry: the eccentric 70m Sun Tower (short description in English here), designed and constructed by the famous Taro Okamoto (1911-1996). The Sun Tower consists of three faces: the "Black Sun", the "Golden Sun" and a unnamed larger image facing the main Gate. The Sun Tower, among with a few other buildings - not most pavilions and the recently demolished Expo Tower, though - remains to this day in the commemorative park Expoland (a few more photos from Expoland).