What does Kotae Expo offer?
Kotae Expo offers entertainment for all visitors. Maybe your next program or workshop is still hours away and you’d like to find something to do? Maybe you want to simply want to have some relaxed fun? No worries! Below you will find all the ways to spend time at our event.
The entertainment for 2025 will be updated on this site at a later date! Stay tuned!
Manga Library
The Tampere City Library’s Manga Library Point offers a quiet moment in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the event. At the Library Point, you can borrow manga and other Asian-themed literature to read or get yourself a library card. There are also puzzles and a badge machine at the point.
Gaming
Hypecon
Hyvinkään pelitalo and Hypecon offer consoles and PC games for testing in the A-hall during the weekend!
Last year we had a wide range of gaming equipment up for testing, like gaming PCs, Playstation 5s, VR sets, racing sets, Wii U, arcade emulators and an Xbox. The area is organized by Hypecon’s representatives.
The area’s opening hours will be updated here before Kotae Expo!
You can find more information:
About Hypecon at hypecon.net
About Hyvinkään Pelitalo, which is maintained by Hyvinkää Youth Services: hyvinkaa.fi/nuoriso
Rhythm games
Do you feel the boogie? Is your finger already tapping in the rhythm? Come test your sense of rhythm at Peliepelit gaming spot! You’ll find the most popular rhythm games here. We’ll publish a detailed list of the games closer to the event.
The opening hours will be published before Kotae Expo!
Board games
In anime and manga, the drama doesn’t always stem from physical fights and competitions – sometimes inspiration is drawn from the world of board games and card games.
You can challenge your wits and luck with go, mahjong and many other games in Kotae’s Board Game Library.
We’ll publish more information about borrowing the games and the gaming spots before the event.
Fittings
Hanbok fitting
Have you always wanted to try on a lovely Korean Hanbok, but haven’t had the chance? Your opportunity has come!
At Kotae Expo, you’ll have the unique opportunity to fit a hanbok at the fitting point organized by Tampere King Sejong Institute! You can take lovely pictures in Hanbok and share them with your friends.
Kimono fitting
Last year Tabikauppa offered a luxurious opportunity to try out how the most amazing party kimonos looked on you! For a small fee, their master dressers helped customers to put on the kimonos and accessories of their dreams. There was also an opportunity to take photos in front of their photo wall. You could even walk around the event wearing the kimono! The reservation lasted for 2 hours, of which 30 minutes was reserved for dressing up. The reservations for the kimono fittings were made via Tabikauppas website.
The dressing time is about 30 minutes, after which you can keep the kimono for another hour and a half. The return of the kimono takes place Tabikauppa’s booth exactly two hours after your reservation began.
Karaoke
Do you love karaoke? So do we! At Kotae Expo, you can let loose your inner idol and sing to your heart’s content to the songs from your favorite animes or idol groups. The karaoke software is Ultrastar Deluxe.
You will not run out of songs to sing. We got a song library of oer 35000 songs!
We’ll update all available anime, k-pop and j-pop songs on this page before Kotae Expo!