JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Shinagawa, Tokyo
Microsoft Japan
The 30th-floor reception
Microsoft Japan finished rebuilding its Shinagawa headquarters on 30 June 2022.
Read the Microsoft Japan office →COLLECTIONS › GLOBAL COMPANIES IN JAPAN
Collection
Global companies in Japan — 13 of Japan’s best
How international companies design their offices in Japan.
International companies in Japan design for two audiences at once: a global brand and a Japanese team. These offices show how Microsoft, Amazon, Indeed and others bring their way of working to Tokyo and Osaka.
02 · Meguro, Tokyo
Amazon Japan
The Dinosaur Space, Arco Tower 19F
Amazon has sold in Japan since 2000.
Read the Amazon Japan office →
03 · Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
Indeed Japan
The Indeed lounge
Indeed’s mission is “We help people get jobs.” In its Azabu-Juban sales office, designed by a foreign designer trained in Japan around the idea of modern Japanese, that mission is painted on the wall, sits in every meeting room, and even runs as a screensaver.
Read the Indeed Japan office →
04 · Tokyo
Expedia Japan
A timber tunnel to the Expedia logo
Expedia, one of the world’s largest online travel companies, gave its Tokyo office a single theme: travel.
Read the Expedia Japan office →
05 · Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
Accenture
The yagura tower at the 8th-floor entrance
In January 2018 Accenture opened an innovation hub on two floors in Azabu-Juban, a neighbourhood famous for its summer festival.
Read the Accenture office →
06 · Umeda, Osaka
ASTRAZENECA
The reception, Osaka
AstraZeneca’s Japanese head office occupies three floors of Grand Front Osaka, right by JR Osaka Station.
Read the ASTRAZENECA office →
07 · Makuhari, Chiba
QVC Japan
The atrium through every floor
QVC Japan runs its TV and online shopping business — buying, filming, broadcasting, orders and shipping — from one building in Makuhari.
Read the QVC Japan office →
08 · Shibaura, Tokyo
ManpowerGroup Japan
Reception
Japan’s first staffing company works thirty floors above Tamachi station, and has put a long timber table, a rock-shaped sofa and a great deal of planting between the desks and the glass.
Read the ManpowerGroup Japan office →
09 · Hibiya, Tokyo
EY Japan
The EY Japan reception
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.
Read the EY Japan office →
10 · Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU
The Greenhouse
The group’s flagship office opened in the Marunouchi Nijubashi Building, and keeps a room used in twenty-four countries for a single purpose: sessions run by a trained facilitator to find a client’s answer.
Read the DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU office →
11 · Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
KPMG AZSA
The digital wall
The audit firm occupies seven floors of Otemachi Financial City South Tower and builds its reception out of timber — its stated way of putting natural beauty and technology in the same room.
Read the KPMG AZSA office →
12 · Shibaura, Tokyo
TBWA HAKUHODO
Long tables in the new floor
TBWA HAKUHODO treats its office as a city and each new floor as town planning.
Read the TBWA HAKUHODO office →
13 · Shimogyō, Kyoto
HAPPY ELEMENTS
The café floor
Cacalia Studio, the Kyoto production arm of Happy Elements, gives one entire floor to a café with a tatami bay in it, takes the telephones off the working floor, and keeps a soundproof room for writing music.
Read the HAPPY ELEMENTS office →Questions
About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Global companies in Japan”?
WALL has picked 13: Microsoft Japan (Shinagawa, Tokyo), Amazon Japan (Meguro, Tokyo), Indeed Japan (Azabu-Juban, Tokyo), Expedia Japan (Tokyo), Accenture (Azabu-Juban, Tokyo), ASTRAZENECA (Umeda, Osaka), QVC Japan (Makuhari, Chiba), ManpowerGroup Japan (Shibaura, Tokyo), EY Japan (Hibiya, Tokyo), DELOITTE TOUCHE TOHMATSU (Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo), KPMG AZSA (Otemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo), TBWA HAKUHODO (Shibaura, Tokyo), HAPPY ELEMENTS (Shimogyō, Kyoto).
Where in Japan are these offices?
They are spread across 4 places: Tokyo (10), Osaka (1), Chiba (1), Kyoto (1).
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.
Keep exploring
More collections
18 OF JAPAN’S BEST
Office cafés & cafeterias
Where companies in Japan eat, meet and pause — from free meals to half-price buffets.
16 OF JAPAN’S BEST
Receptions
The first room a visitor sees — reception areas in Japan that say what the company is before anyone speaks.
13 OF JAPAN’S BEST
Office lounges
Sofas, cafés and planted corners — the lounges where Japanese offices take a break, meet and change scene.
11 OF JAPAN’S BEST
Training & seminar rooms
Rooms for new-employee training, study sessions and seminars inside Japanese offices.
11 OF JAPAN’S BEST
Lockers & changing rooms
When nobody owns a desk, things go in a locker — the storage that makes free address work in Japan.
11 OF JAPAN’S BEST
Murals & statement walls
Offices in Japan that put their story on the wall — cherry blossoms, chalk, seasons and things people bought.
