JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Roppongi, Tokyo
Mercari
The open entrance and reception
Step off the lift and the first thing you meet is the Mercari Wall, a display of things actually bought and sold on the app.
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Receptions — 16 of the best
The first room a visitor sees — reception areas in Japan that say what the company is before anyone speaks.
02 · Takeshiba, Tokyo
SoftBank
Reception
The reception counter sits straight ahead of the entrance, in front of an infinity of logos.
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03 · Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
Accenture
The yagura tower at the 8th-floor entrance
A yagura, a festival tower, stands in the middle of the entrance.
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04 · Shinagawa, Tokyo
Microsoft Japan
The 30th-floor reception
Visitors start at receptions on 31 and 30, both green, with hexagons and a lattice corridor.
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05 · Roppongi, Tokyo
COLOPL
The reception desk
The entrance is designed after the browser game the company started with.
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06 · Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
Indeed Japan
Entrance corridor
The entrance is small for such a large office: green and black tatami and an orange chair.
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07 · Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
REMEDY AND COMPANY
The entrance
The entrance wall is projection-mapped, with imagery that changes with the season.
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08 · Hitotsubashi, Tokyo
MEDIA DO
The fifth-floor entrance
A large circular bench sits against a counter twelve metres long.
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09 · Shibuya, Tokyo
I-MOBILE
The entrance
A curved timber wall with a line of light recessed into it.
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10 · Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka
SHIN CHEMICAL TRADING
The entrance
The mark is set large on the wall, beside a cylindrical LED screen playing video.
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11 · Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo
CARTA HOLDINGS
The entrance
A long white wall curved in plan keeps the working floor out of sight until you are round it.
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12 · Shinjuku, Tokyo
GENIEE
The reception
A dark corridor opens into a stepped lounge with the company name on the wall above it.
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13 · Osaka
DIMPS
The entrance
The first photo is an entrance with calm, low lighting.
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14 · Kochi
KOCHI SHIMBUN
The 8th-floor entrance
Above reception are 34 wood-grain panels, one for each of the prefecture’s municipalities.
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15 · Tokyo
NRI NETCOM
The reception area
The NRI Netcom logo on the white wall is stainless steel with an antique-style finish; the wall itself is plaster, finished by hand.
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16 · Kamiyacho, Tokyo
CTC
The Kamiyacho entrance
The tour opens with the building from outside, then the entrance and its sofas.
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