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Counters inside the office where the day ends — coffee in the morning, a drink and a talk after work.
After-work drinks are part of Japanese office life, and some companies have brought the bar inside: counters, beer servers and house rules for when they open.
01 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo
The CYBOZU BAR
The Cybozu Cafe serves coffee inside the office, and the CYBOZU BAR counter gives the floor a place to gather after work. Both are part of the office itself, not a separate facility.
Read the CYBOZU office →
02 · Tokyo
The bar counter
The bar counter is the heart of internal events such as #P-HUB. A coffee-loving club, #z-coffee, brews here, and a vending machine nearby is free
Read the PIXIV office →
03 · Tokyo
The kitchen bar
The kitchen bar welcomes guests from outside; cooking together takes relationships beyond simply working together.
Read the MITSUI DESIGNTEC office →
04 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo
The community bar
The salon is run like a co-working floor, with a bar at one end serving proper coffee.
Read the APPAREL-WEB office →
05 · Tokyo & Osaka
The counter along the window
A circular sofa sits at its centre, and a counter runs along the window.
Read the HEXA DRIVE office →.jpg)
06 · Yokohama
The bar counter
The free space has a bar counter; after work the drinks are free, as long as two or more people are there.
Read the NET CHART JAPAN office →
07 · Minato, TokyoNEW
The bar counter
Mitsui Knowledge Industry brought three Tokyo sites into one building near Omotesando in 2026.
Read the MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY office →
08 · OsakaNEW
The bar space
Capcom’s recruiting site tours two research and development buildings.
Read the CAPCOM office →
09 · Shinagawa, TokyoNEW
The bar
The studio behind Persona and Megami Tensei gives each of its meeting rooms a letter and a port city, and states that no two of them share a wall colour.
Read the ATLUS office →
10 · Shinjuku, TokyoNEW
The bar counter
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.
Read the GENIEE office →
11 · Shin-Osaka, OsakaNEW
The counter bar
A cosmetics and health-food trading house gave its Shin-Osaka head office one idea — a bridge — and ran a gently curved central corridor through the floor to stand for it.
Read the SHINEI SHOJI office →
12 · TokyoNEW
Kitatatsu Bar
A Sapporo-founded direct-selling company shows its Tokyo head office as a sequence of arches, a curved green floor and a bar it calls Kitatatsu, open to everyone after six.
Read the KITANOTATSUJIN office →Questions
WALL has picked 12: CYBOZU (Nihonbashi, Tokyo), PIXIV (Tokyo), MITSUI DESIGNTEC (Tokyo), APPAREL-WEB (Nihonbashi, Tokyo), HEXA DRIVE (Tokyo & Osaka), NET CHART JAPAN (Yokohama), MITSUI KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY (Minato, Tokyo), CAPCOM (Osaka), ATLUS (Shinagawa, Tokyo), GENIEE (Shinjuku, Tokyo), SHINEI SHOJI (Shin-Osaka, Osaka), KITANOTATSUJIN (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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