JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · Chuo, Tokyo
ITOKI
Signage on the floor
When the office opened in 2018, the design focused on ABW — Activity Based Working, where people choose the best time and place for each task.
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Signage & graphics — 10 of Japan’s best
Room signs, floor graphics and values on the wall — the lettering that guides you through Japanese offices.
Signage tells visitors where to go and tells staff what the company stands for. These offices turn room names, floor signs and digital screens into part of the design.
02 · Roppongi, Tokyo
Mercari
Value graphics at each entrance
You cannot cross the office without passing people, and the design counts on that: conversations start on the way to somewhere else.
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03 · Umeda, Osaka and Osaki, Tokyo
NIPPON HAM SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS
A meeting-room sign
In Tokyo the meeting rooms are signposted by number — 10, 11 — and each numeral is drawn with a food motif tucked into it.
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04 · Tokyo
ADWAYS
A room sign
The company states the brief in one line: an office you want to come to, an office where you design your own way of working and make things together.
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05 · Osaka
KINTO TECHNOLOGIES
Road signs set into the corridor ceiling
The staff member who wrote up the new floor is blunt about it: compared with the old office, this is a completely different space, and the concept went all-in on a design that feels like KINTO Technologies — cars and mobility.
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06 · Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo
Gensler
Floral wall graphics
Founded in San Francisco in 1965, Gensler now has 57 offices and more than 6,500 people, working on interiors, buildings, brands and digital experiences with a single mission: to make the world better through the power of design.
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08 · Marunouchi, Tokyo
UZABASE
Digital signage in the entrance
The company set out three values for the design, and the one you can see is the simplest: this is a space where two or more people meet and something comes of it — arguing over an idea, teaching, filming, pair programming, holding a small offsite.
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09 · Meguro, Tokyo
Amazon Japan
Room signs on the 5th floor: rivers of the world
Nothing here is stiff, and the design counts on a smile to loosen up creative work.
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Questions
About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Signage & graphics”?
WALL has picked 10: ITOKI (Chuo, Tokyo), Mercari (Roppongi, Tokyo), NIPPON HAM SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS (Umeda, Osaka and Osaki, Tokyo), ADWAYS (Tokyo), KINTO TECHNOLOGIES (Osaka), Gensler (Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo), EARTH PET (Tokushima), UZABASE (Marunouchi, Tokyo), Amazon Japan (Meguro, Tokyo), Keikyu (Minatomirai, Yokohama).
Where in Japan are these offices?
They are spread across 4 places: Tokyo (7), Osaka (1), Tokushima (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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