JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Shiodome, TokyoNEW
SHISEIDO
Glass rooms edged in red
Shiseido renovated its Shiodome head office, the Global Vision Center, and its Shiseido Japan office around a new way of working it calls “Work x Life x Beauty”.
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12 Glass Meeting Rooms in Japanese Offices — Shiseido, NRI and More
Meeting rooms behind glass walls — rooms that stay part of the floor while the door is closed.
Many Japanese offices now build their meeting rooms in glass. Light reaches the middle of the floor, people can see whether a room is free, and the meeting inside stays visible to the team.
12 officesTokyo 11Yokohama 16 industries12 added October 2026
02 · YokohamaNEW
NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Glass rooms off the work floor
Nomura Research Institute moved its Tokyo head office and carried out large relocations in Yokohama and Osaka, aiming for a next-generation office that cares for diversity and health.
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03 · TokyoNEW
FUJITSU
A glazed room
Fujitsu renovated the executive floor of its head office so that staff and executives could talk more easily.
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04 · Marunouchi, TokyoNEW
CBRE
Lounge chairs and glass rooms
When CBRE Japan moved to Marunouchi, it wanted an office that matched its standing as a top real-estate agent.
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05 · Minato, TokyoNEW
MITSUI O.S.K. LINES
Glass meeting rooms
Mitsui O.S.K.
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06 · Shinagawa, TokyoNEW
OXFORD INSTRUMENTS
A glass room
The Japanese arm of the British scientific-instrument maker brought its Tennozu and Nihonbashi sites together in Shinagawa.
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07 · Akishima, TokyoNEW
IHI
Glass meeting rooms
IHI built a new east building at its Akishima site to bring together the offices of its aero-engine business.
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08 · Ebisu, TokyoNEW
TRADERS HOLDINGS
Glass-walled meeting rooms
The Traders group works on the 28th floor of Ebisu Garden Place Tower.
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09 · Hibiya, TokyoNEW
EY Japan
A glazed room
An audit firm on the upper floors of Tokyo Midtown Hibiya puts one colour through a very large office — on a curved screen, on a booth, on a stack of seminar chairs — and keeps a separate room for the work that is not auditing.
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10 · Shiba, Minato, TokyoNEW
DHC
Glazed meeting rooms
The cosmetics and supplements company moved to the nineteenth floor of Mitamachi Terrace and published the result as a straightforward walk through the floor.
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11 · TokyoNEW
NIKON SYSTEMS
Glazed meeting rooms
Nikon’s software company moved head office in February 2024 and set out the result as a list of what is on and around each desk — monitors, workstations, batteries, booths.
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12 · Shinjuku, TokyoNEW
BSTYLE GROUP
Glazed rooms
A staffing group in Shinjuku keeps a room with a kitchen in it, so that a client conversation can carry on over cooking; the reception carries the company philosophy as a mark.
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About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Glass meeting rooms”?
WALL has picked 12: SHISEIDO (Shiodome, Tokyo), NOMURA RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Yokohama), FUJITSU (Tokyo), CBRE (Marunouchi, Tokyo), MITSUI O.S.K. LINES (Minato, Tokyo), OXFORD INSTRUMENTS (Shinagawa, Tokyo), IHI (Akishima, Tokyo), TRADERS HOLDINGS (Ebisu, Tokyo), EY Japan (Hibiya, Tokyo), DHC (Shiba, Minato, Tokyo), NIKON SYSTEMS (Tokyo), BSTYLE GROUP (Shinjuku, Tokyo).
Can I visit these offices?
Most are private workplaces and not open to the public. WALL reports on them from the companies’ own published material; each office page links to its source.
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