JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Osaka
DIMPS
A meeting room
What it chooses to show supports that: two quiet free spaces, meeting rooms with plants, and a development floor where the seating follows the projects rather than the org chart.
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Collection
Meeting rooms — 14 of Japan’s best
Glazed, named, hung in the air — meeting rooms in Japanese offices, from four-seat rooms to boardrooms.
Meetings — uchiawase (打ち合わせ) — take up much of a Japanese working day, and offices answer with rooms of every size. The direction is clear across the offices WALL has walked: glass walls, video-call equipment in every room, and rooms matched to the purpose of the meeting.
02 · Furukawa, Miyagi
ALPS ALPINE
Meeting room 3A2
On the 3rd and 4th floors, trapezoid boxes hang in the space: meeting rooms called 3A1 and 3A2, from which you can still see outside.
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03 · Tokyo
Congrès
Toward the meeting rooms
Every meeting room is glazed, so the floor reads as one space rather than a corridor of doors.
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04 · Shibuya, Tokyo
Square Enix
A meeting room
The meeting rooms are shared across the company, bookable on any floor.
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05 · Marunouchi, Tokyo
Calbee
A meeting room
A meeting room hung with framed work, and a meeting-room door faced in a panel of woven textile — the company photographs the door on its own.
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06 · Higashi-Sakura, Nagoya
Oak Lawn Marketing
A meeting room
The meeting rooms are the least eventful pictures in the set — a timber table in one, a long table by the window in another — and the pantry is a run of counters with appliances on it and the brand mark above.
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07 · Akasaka, Tokyo
Management Solutions
A meeting room
So the Tokyo floor is mostly meeting rooms — ten of them, chosen by headcount and purpose, plus a seminar room for twenty to thirty — and the company has taken the trouble to paper and furnish every one differently.
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08 · Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo
ASIRO
A meeting room
ASIRO has done something simple and slightly ruthless with its meeting rooms.
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09 · Nakano, Tokyo
SCC
A meeting room
Meeting rooms are glazed to the corridor, and run from round tables for small groups to long rooms for a division.
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10 · Shiba, Minato, Tokyo
DHC
Glazed meeting rooms
The meeting rooms are glazed both to the corridor and to the city, the lounges are set at the perimeter, and the planting is placed where it will be read against the sky rather than against a wall.
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11 · Tokyo
NIKON SYSTEMS
Glazed meeting rooms
One zone drops the light level and turns blue, with a round meeting room and banquette seating along its edge.
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12 · Shibuya, Tokyo
SONY BIZ NETWORKS
A meeting room
The 23rd-floor meeting room is Mark City, after the building itself.
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13 · Shinjuku, Tokyo
BSTYLE GROUP
A meeting room
Four visitor meeting rooms: one for eight with a large window, two for six, and the twelve-seat room used when several departments meet.
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14 · Yokohama
NET CHART JAPAN
A meeting room
Meeting rooms run from small to large, with monitors and whiteboards.
Read the NET CHART JAPAN office →Questions
About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Meeting rooms”?
WALL has picked 14: DIMPS (Osaka), ALPS ALPINE (Furukawa, Miyagi), Congrès (Tokyo), Square Enix (Shibuya, Tokyo), Calbee (Marunouchi, Tokyo), Oak Lawn Marketing (Higashi-Sakura, Nagoya), Management Solutions (Akasaka, Tokyo), ASIRO (Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo), SCC (Nakano, Tokyo), DHC (Shiba, Minato, Tokyo), NIKON SYSTEMS (Tokyo), SONY BIZ NETWORKS (Shibuya, Tokyo), BSTYLE GROUP (Shinjuku, Tokyo), NET CHART JAPAN (Yokohama).
Where in Japan are these offices?
They are spread across 5 places: Tokyo (10), Osaka (1), Miyagi (1), Nagoya (1), Yokohama (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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