JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Marunouchi, TokyoNEW
CBRE
Long tables by the windows
When CBRE Japan moved to Marunouchi, it wanted an office that matched its standing as a top real-estate agent.
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12 Long Tables in Japanese Offices — CBRE, LIXIL and More
Long tables where a whole team can sit together — in cafés, by windows and on the work floor.
A long table seats a whole team at once and lets people join or leave without moving furniture. The offices here use them in cafés, by the windows and in the middle of the work floor.
12 officesTokyo 9Yokohama 2Chiba 16 industries12 added October 2026
02 · Shinagawa, TokyoNEW
LIXIL
Pendants over a long table
LIXIL’s new head office in Shinagawa is designed as a “second home”.
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03 · ChibaNEW
TOYO ENGINEERING
A long table
Toyo Engineering’s new head office in Chiba is planned like an industrial plant: routes run through the floors the way piping carries energy round a plant.
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04 · Chūō, TokyoNEW
ASAHI SHIMBUN
A long table
When the Asahi Shimbun formed a new media business division, it brought about 800 people from different sites onto one floor of its head office in Tsukiji.
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05 · Otemachi, TokyoNEW
Japan Post Holdings
The long tables
The holding company for the post office, the savings bank and the insurer publishes a thirty-seven-slide tour of its Otemachi head office and writes not one word about any of it — so the building has to speak, and it does, mostly in numbers.
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06 · TokyoNEW
Congrès
The long tables
The company that runs Japan’s conferences has built its own Tokyo head office out of the things a conference needs — a room with stepped benches, glass on every meeting room, and a break space you can drop a screen in.
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07 · YokohamaNEW
NET CHART JAPAN
The long table
Every door in the office opens by face recognition, and the free space has a bar counter where alcohol is free after work — provided at least two employees are using it.
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08 · Roppongi, Minato, TokyoNEW
SANKYODO TAX GROUP
The long table
A tax practice on the fortieth floor lists three things it designed for: natural light, the view over Tokyo, and the blank space needed to think in.
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09 · Hitotsubashi, TokyoNEW
MEDIA DO
A long table by the window
Japan’s largest ebook distributor took a floor of one of Tokyo’s most important post-war office buildings and built three things into it — a park, a library and a café — with the library running across the whole floor.
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10 · Shinjuku, TokyoNEW
GENIEE
The long table
An advertising-technology company states its office concept in three Japanese words, the first of which means not dressed up, and then hangs a stone mask in the lounge.
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11 · Minatomirai, YokohamaNEW
SONY
Long tables
Sony City Minatomirai sits directly above a station.
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12 · Roppongi, TokyoNEW
DIRBATO
Long tables in the café
On the 32nd floor of Midtown Tower, a consulting firm built an entrance out of LED video walls and then used light to walk visitors to the meeting room.
Read the DIRBATO office →Questions
About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Long tables”?
WALL has picked 12: CBRE (Marunouchi, Tokyo), LIXIL (Shinagawa, Tokyo), TOYO ENGINEERING (Chiba), ASAHI SHIMBUN (Chūō, Tokyo), Japan Post Holdings (Otemachi, Tokyo), Congrès (Tokyo), NET CHART JAPAN (Yokohama), SANKYODO TAX GROUP (Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo), MEDIA DO (Hitotsubashi, Tokyo), GENIEE (Shinjuku, Tokyo), SONY (Minatomirai, Yokohama), DIRBATO (Roppongi, 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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