JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Tokyo
MITSUBISHI ESTATE IT SOLUTIONS
The corridor in
The entrance runs as a timber-lined corridor with lit branches along it.
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Corridors & office streets — 11 of Japan’s best
Corridors lined with rooms, and floors laid out like streets and squares.
A corridor is usually the least designed part of an office. These Japanese offices treat it as a street — lit, named and lined with rooms — so walking through the floor becomes part of the experience.
02 · Kanda, Tokyo
BIZMATES
The corridor of rooms
Ten meeting rooms line a corridor, each carrying the name of a world city — which for a company whose teachers and colleagues are spread across the world is a way of putting the map on the wall.
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03 · Osaka
KINTO TECHNOLOGIES
Road signs set into the corridor ceiling
It is parking lines painted on the floor of the meeting-room area, road signs set into the corridor ceiling, and rooms named after the parts of a circuit.
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04 · Nishi-Gotanda, Tokyo
BEENOS
The corridor from the entrance
The lift lobby opens onto a pale entrance with the company name on the wall and planting set into the floor; a corridor leads from it towards the working floor.
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05 · Yonbanchō, Tokyo
MIZUHO MARUBENI LEASING
The reception corridor
The entrance opens onto a corridor lined with the guest rooms, of which there are six.
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06 · Roppongi, Tokyo
DIRBATO
The corridor of rooms
Behind that runs a corridor of enclosed rooms, dark-walled, for the work that needs a door.
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07 · Marunouchi, Tokyo
UZABASE
SQUARE
A square, a street, a park, a library, a café — and an akichi, the vacant lot with nothing built on it.
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08 · Azabudai, Tokyo
PERSOL CAREER
A corridor of meeting rooms
Reception sits at the top of the three floors, with meeting rooms along a corridor behind it and lounges at the floor edges.
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09 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo
CYBOZU
A corridor on the 27th floor
Meeting rooms sit beside a renewed open area, so a conversation can move from a corridor chat to a closed room without leaving the floor.
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10 · Odaiba, Tokyo
NOMURA
A meeting room glowing off the dark corridor
The shared corridor is kept dark so the rooms glow like displays, borrowing know-how from exhibition design.
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11 · Shinagawa, Tokyo
Microsoft Japan
The corridor
Around them sit an Executive Briefing Room for leadership meetings, the six-sided Hexagon Room, a breakout space beside the multi-purpose room, the Innovation Factory for co-creation with customers, a visitor lounge, and a corridor wrapped in black lattice.
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About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Corridors & office streets”?
WALL has picked 11: MITSUBISHI ESTATE IT SOLUTIONS (Tokyo), BIZMATES (Kanda, Tokyo), KINTO TECHNOLOGIES (Osaka), BEENOS (Nishi-Gotanda, Tokyo), MIZUHO MARUBENI LEASING (Yonbanchō, Tokyo), DIRBATO (Roppongi, Tokyo), UZABASE (Marunouchi, Tokyo), PERSOL CAREER (Azabudai, Tokyo), CYBOZU (Nihonbashi, Tokyo), NOMURA (Odaiba, Tokyo), Microsoft Japan (Shinagawa, Tokyo).
Where in Japan are these offices?
They are spread across 2 places: Tokyo (10), Osaka (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.
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