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Ports, seasons, historical figures — offices in Japan that name their meeting rooms, and what the names say about the company.
Japanese offices often name their meeting rooms rather than number them — after cities, colours, mountains or company history. These are the offices with the best names.
01 · Osaki, Tokyo
A port-city meeting room
Meeting rooms are named after ports around the world — Hong Kong, Incheon, Wellington, Barcelona, Saint Petersburg, Edinburgh, Funafuti. There is no room beginning with Z, because Z would mean the end of the journey.
Read the SEGA SAMMY office →
02 · Tokyo
A meeting room
Rooms are named after colours and seasons. The largest, Momo (peach), has original illustrations on its tables.
Read the PIXIV office →
03 · Akasaka, Tokyo
Room 14: Napoleon
Each room is named after a historical figure linked to the enneagram, which kaonavi uses, with a quote from that person on the wall.
Read the KAONAVI office →
04 · Shibuya, Tokyo
A guest meeting room
Beyond it, guest meeting rooms A to W carry nature names such as Aurora and Beach, chosen from staff suggestions.
Read the SANSAN office →
05 · Marunouchi, Tokyo
AKICHI
So the rooms are named after the places a town uses for that.
Read the UZABASE office →
06 · Roppongi, Tokyo
STADIUM
The rest of the floor is named for what happens there rather than what it contains: FOCUS for concentrating, CHAT for short conversations, STADIUM for the room where everyone can gather
Read the HANASAKU LIFE office →
07 · Shibuya, Tokyo
Scramble Crossing
Rooms named after the place outside: Terminal, Scramble Crossing, Dogenzaka Avenue and Mark City.
Read the SONY BIZ NETWORKS office →
08 · Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo
A meeting room on 12
The two 12th-floor rooms take the names of the warlords Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin, with darker, heavier interiors.
Read the ASIRO office →
09 · Umeda, Osaka and Osaki, Tokyo
A meeting-room sign
Each Tokyo meeting-room number is drawn with a food motif worked into it.
Read the NIPPON HAM SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS office →
10 · Tokyo
The Red Room
The Red Room is “the red of passion”, where heated discussions sometimes happen.
Read the PLUS ALPHA CONSULTING office →
11 · Hatchobori, Tokyo
DAIMONJI, the large meeting room
The meeting room is RYOUAN and the large meeting room is DAIMONJI — both names that any Japanese visitor will hear as Kyoto.
Read the KOUSHIN office →Questions
WALL has picked 11: SEGA SAMMY (Osaki, Tokyo), PIXIV (Tokyo), KAONAVI (Akasaka, Tokyo), SANSAN (Shibuya, Tokyo), UZABASE (Marunouchi, Tokyo), HANASAKU LIFE (Roppongi, Tokyo), SONY BIZ NETWORKS (Shibuya, Tokyo), ASIRO (Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo), NIPPON HAM SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS (Umeda, Osaka and Osaki, Tokyo), PLUS ALPHA CONSULTING (Tokyo), KOUSHIN (Hatchobori, Tokyo).
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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