
01 · Shibuya, Tokyo
MIXI
Massage room
A massage room with licensed therapists takes bookings of up to 30 minutes.
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Where people in Japanese offices go to rest — massage tables, massage chairs and a quiet room.
A number of Japanese companies keep a massage or relaxation room on site, some of them staffed by qualified practitioners. These are the offices where rest is built into the floor plan.

01 · Shibuya, Tokyo
Massage room
A massage room with licensed therapists takes bookings of up to 30 minutes.
Read the MIXI office →
02 · Makuhari, Chiba
Massage chairs
A relaxation room with massage chairs and a view of the Makuhari sea is open 24 hours, alongside nap rooms and showers for people who work around the clock.
Read the QVC Japan office →
03 · Shibuya, Tokyo
Relaxation room
A massage room with in-house therapists, free up to four times a month, in every office.
Read the CyberAgent office →
04 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo
The relax space
A relax space rounds out the floor — because an office built for teamwork also needs a place to be quietly alone.
Read the CYBOZU office →
05 · Minatomirai, Yokohama
The relax space on 2F
Next to the offices are relax spaces, and each floor’s space has a different concept — so taking a break on the 2nd floor feels different from taking one on the 7th.
Read the KOEI TECMO office →
06 · Tokyo
The massage room
The massage room, also staff-only, looks out on Tokyo Station; the company says its therapist is very popular.
Read the GUNGHO office →
07 · Tokyo & Osaka
The circular sofa in the relaxing space
The relaxing space is stocked with games, DVDs and manga, and the company is plain about why: imagination is the material.
Read the HEXA DRIVE office →
08 · Toyosu, Tokyo
The relaxation room
In the relaxation room, dedicated staff with national qualifications give massages.
Read the SCSK office →
09 · Shibuya, Tokyo
The relax space
Next to it is a massage room that staff can use for free once a week.
Read the CYBERACE office →
10 · Marunouchi, TokyoNEW
The rest room
Mitsubishi HC Capital works two minutes from Tokyo Station, in the Shin-Marunouchi Building.
Read the MITSUBISHI HC CAPITAL office →
11 · Kitakyūshū, FukuokaNEW
The relaxation area
For its twentieth anniversary this Kitakyūshū chemicals trader rebuilt its head office around one idea it states outright — an office that shows — with a cylindrical LED at the entrance and glass all the way to the desks.
Read the SHIN CHEMICAL TRADING office →
12 · Higashi, KumamotoNEW
The relaxation room
A health-food company in Kumamoto has built into its own building a canteen seating two hundred and fifty, an izakaya, a gym with outside instructors, and two nurseries open from half past seven in the morning.
Read the EGAO office →
13 · OsakaNEW
The massage room
Cygames states its office policy in one line — developers should be able to concentrate on developing in comfort — and then spends it on a library of ten thousand volumes, a bouldering wall, a massage room and a motion-capture stage with 168 cameras in it.
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14 · Dōgenzaka, Shibuya, TokyoNEW
The rest room
On the fifteenth floor in Dōgenzaka, the reception is a circle with planting growing out of the middle of it — and two floors down the corridor, a room kept full of every device the company’s software has to run on.
Read the PLAY office →
15 · Nihonbashi Kabutochō, TokyoNEW
A rest room
Heiwa Real Estate keeps its head office in the Nisshōkan, a building put up in 1928 on the site where Shibusawa Eiichi once lived.
Read the HEIWA REAL ESTATE office →Questions
WALL has picked 15: MIXI (Shibuya, Tokyo), QVC Japan (Makuhari, Chiba), CyberAgent (Shibuya, Tokyo), CYBOZU (Nihonbashi, Tokyo), KOEI TECMO (Minatomirai, Yokohama), GUNGHO (Tokyo), HEXA DRIVE (Tokyo & Osaka), SCSK (Toyosu, Tokyo), CYBERACE (Shibuya, Tokyo), MITSUBISHI HC CAPITAL (Marunouchi, Tokyo), SHIN CHEMICAL TRADING (Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka), EGAO (Higashi, Kumamoto), CYGAMES (Osaka), PLAY (Dōgenzaka, Shibuya, Tokyo), HEIWA REAL ESTATE (Nihonbashi Kabutochō, 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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