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Sofas, cafés and planted corners — the lounges where Japanese offices take a break, meet and change scene.
In a Japanese office the lounge has taken over from the old tea corner as the place where departments meet. It is used for breaks, short discussions, lunch and a change of scene from the desk, and many companies now put it right by the entrance.
01 · Shibuya, Tokyo
The lounge
In Shibuya that means a floor high above one of Tokyo’s best-known department stores, with a lounge, a café and bar, and an incubation space all named Pangaea — the supercontinent, a single land where everything was joined.
Read the DIGITAL GARAGE office →
02 · Hatchobori, Tokyo
The lounge space
After the 2025 renewal, the photo gallery walks from entrance and reception through a lounge and a café to meeting rooms, web booths and open tables.
Read the KOUSHIN office →
03 · Nagoya
The lounge
Sit on the lounge sofa in the middle of the floor and you can see the work areas on both sides.
Read the THE ASAHI SHIMBUN office →
04 · Kochi
The 8th-floor lounge
The 8th-floor lounge is used for breaks and as a change-of-scene workplace.
Read the KOCHI SHIMBUN office →
05 · Tokyo
LEAGUE LOUNGE
On the 6th floor, right by the entrance, is LEAGUE LOUNGE — team spots, a café and a lounge together, the busiest part of the office.
Read the SAZABY LEAGUE office →
06 · Otemachi, Tokyo
The bench lounge
Above the lobby the tour moves through a series of waiting and lounge floors: long benches under the glazing, and a red-carpeted room with white tub chairs.
Read the Japan Post Holdings office →
07 · Kanda, Tokyo
The lounge
The top floor is a staff-only lounge, used for internal discussions and for doing nothing in particular.
Read the Earth Corporation office →
08 · Ueno, Tokyo
The refresh lounge
The far end of the office floor is a lounge looking out over Ueno.
Read the Shimadzu Diagnostics office →
09 · Shibaura, Tokyo
The lounge
It is built in: a long raised bed runs the length of a twelve-metre timber counter so that everyone sitting at it is looking through leaves; a second bed wraps the back of a curved sofa; a third screens the lounge from the lift core.
Read the ManpowerGroup Japan office →
10 · Hibiya, Tokyo
The lounge
The booths, the nooks, the lounge and the seminar room are yellow.
Read the EY Japan office →
11 · Shinagawa, Tokyo
The lounge
The lounge is a long white sweep with a screen set into it.
Read the PSP office →
12 · Suminoe, Osaka
The café lounge
The lounge that opens the tour sets long timber tables against planting, with the company name on the wall behind.
Read the Sokokara (Hanamaru) office →
13 · Yotsubashi, Osaka
The lounge
A lounge used for visitors, short discussions and eating, with a water server and a coffee maker.
Read the NIKKO office →Questions
WALL has picked 13: DIGITAL GARAGE (Shibuya, Tokyo), KOUSHIN (Hatchobori, Tokyo), THE ASAHI SHIMBUN (Nagoya), KOCHI SHIMBUN (Kochi), SAZABY LEAGUE (Tokyo), Japan Post Holdings (Otemachi, Tokyo), Earth Corporation (Kanda, Tokyo), Shimadzu Diagnostics (Ueno, Tokyo), ManpowerGroup Japan (Shibaura, Tokyo), EY Japan (Hibiya, Tokyo), PSP (Shinagawa, Tokyo), Sokokara (Hanamaru) (Suminoe, Osaka), NIKKO (Yotsubashi, Osaka).
They are spread across 4 places: Tokyo (9), Osaka (2), Nagoya (1), Kochi (1).
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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