JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Tokyo
PLUS ALPHA CONSULTING
The entrance
The entrance is bright and open.
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Office entrances — 14 of Japan’s best
Logo walls, timber, light and planting — how Japanese companies design the first thing you see.
The entrance — genkan (玄関) in Japanese — is the face of a company. Visitors judge it before anyone speaks, so Japanese offices spend on it: a logo wall, a material that says something about the business, and often a glimpse of the working floor beyond.
02 · Umeda, Osaka
ASTRAZENECA
The open entrance
A second, open entrance is meant to express an open culture.
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03 · Shibuya, Tokyo
TRANSCOSMOS
The Shibuya entrance
From the entrance you can see into the office through glass.
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05 · Shibuya, Tokyo
CYBERACE
The entrance
The visitor entrance looks out across Shibuya.
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06 · Kamiyacho, Tokyo
CTC
The entrance
Around it are the ordinary parts of a large IT company’s head office — an entrance with sofas, a corridor of visitor meeting rooms, long working floors and a café — shown plainly, without adjectives.
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07 · Tokyo
AVEX
The entrance
Each floor has a clearly separate function, so people with the same purpose gather in the same place, and the entrance and cafeteria were designed to make people feel what the company calls “avex-ness”.
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08 · Tokushima
EARTH PET
The entrance
So the high entrance has a wall displaying Earth Pet products and a fully mirrored ceiling that seems to go up forever.
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09 · Sakai, Osaka
STELLA CHEMIFA
The entrance
The entrance is the face of the company: a chemical maker’s clean look, softened with wood and plants.
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10 · Osaka
YRGLM
The entrance
It starts from the rubber band in the company’s logo — an object that means nothing on its own but can be used by anyone for anything, a symbol of unlimited possibility.
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11 · Takamatsu, Kagawa
SHIKOKU INSTRUMENTATION
The entrance
The company wanted its entrance to surprise visitors.
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12 · Marunouchi, Tokyo
Mitsubishi Corporation
The lobby
The entrance floor runs under a timber-slatted ceiling with a counter set into it, and opens onto the planted working area beyond.
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13 · Osaki, Tokyo
Nissay Wealth Life
The fifteenth-floor entrance
The company describes the entrance in two moves: a coffered ceiling to give the room height, and indirect lighting to keep it soft.
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14 · Umeda, Osaka and Osaki, Tokyo
NIPPON HAM SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS
The office entrance
The company describes the floor as bright and glass-walled, with security handled at the building line, and the entrance is where visitors are met.
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About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Office entrances”?
WALL has picked 14: PLUS ALPHA CONSULTING (Tokyo), ASTRAZENECA (Umeda, Osaka), TRANSCOSMOS (Shibuya, Tokyo), CAPCOM (Osaka), CYBERACE (Shibuya, Tokyo), CTC (Kamiyacho, Tokyo), AVEX (Tokyo), EARTH PET (Tokushima), STELLA CHEMIFA (Sakai, Osaka), YRGLM (Osaka), SHIKOKU INSTRUMENTATION (Takamatsu, Kagawa), Mitsubishi Corporation (Marunouchi, Tokyo), Nissay Wealth Life (Osaki, Tokyo), NIPPON HAM SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS (Umeda, Osaka and Osaki, Tokyo).
Where in Japan are these offices?
They are spread across 4 places: Tokyo (8), Osaka (4), Tokushima (1), Kagawa (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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