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Sofas that do real work — round, curved, tiered and tucked into booths, from Tokyo to Sapporo, Kyoto and Oita.
A sofa changes how people use a floor: they sit longer, talk more quietly and meet without booking a room. The offices here use sofas in lounges, by windows, in booths and even as steps.
01 · TokyoNEW
Red sofas in Kobe
Konami Group introduces its workplaces through six sites: its next-generation research and development base, Konami Creative Front Tokyo Bay, along with Konami Creative Center Ginza, Konami Osaka Studio, and technical centres in Kanagawa and Kobe and a business site in Ichinomiya.
Read the KONAMI office →
02 · Chūō, TokyoNEW
A round sofa
When the Asahi Shimbun formed a new media business division, it brought about 800 people from different sites onto one floor of its head office in Tsukiji.
Read the ASAHI SHIMBUN office →
03 · TokyoNEW
The tiered sofa steps
On the 12th floor of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s head office sits LIVE-RALLY, an in-house coworking space opened in 2019.
Read the BANDAI NAMCO office →
04 · Tokyo & OsakaNEW
The circular sofa in the relaxing space
HEXA DRIVE runs two studios, one in Shinagawa in Tokyo and one on the 28th floor of Namba Parks Tower in Osaka.
Read the HEXA DRIVE office →
05 · Shibaura, TokyoNEW
The curved sofa
Japan’s first staffing company works thirty floors above Tamachi station, and has put a long timber table, a rock-shaped sofa and a great deal of planting between the desks and the glass.
Read the ManpowerGroup Japan office →
06 · Shimogyō, KyotoNEW
The low sofas
Cacalia Studio, the Kyoto production arm of Happy Elements, gives one entire floor to a café with a tatami bay in it, takes the telephones off the working floor, and keeps a soundproof room for writing music.
Read the HAPPY ELEMENTS office →
07 · Otemachi, TokyoNEW
Sofas by the window
Japan’s trading houses run on individuals who find their own business.
Read the MITSUI & CO. office →
08 · OitaNEW
The sofa booths
OEC is an IT company with two head offices, one in Oita and one in Tokyo.
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09 · SapporoNEW
Bench and sofa seating
This Hokkaidō IT company shows three offices side by side — its Sapporo head office, a second Sapporo office called Sōsei Innovative Office, and a collaboration office in Shinagawa — each photographed room by room, and lets the differences between them do the talking.
Read the HBA office →
10 · OsakaNEW
The sofa seats
YRGLM (Ilgrum), founded in 2001, rebuilt its Osaka head office after the pandemic had pushed its people apart.
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11 · TokyoNEW
A sofa between the pillars
Sazaby League’s holding-company offices sit on the 6th and 7th floors of a building whose ground floor is a Ron Herman shop and café, one of the group’s own brands.
Read the SAZABY LEAGUE office →
12 · Shibuya, TokyoNEW
Tables and sofas
Media, ad tech, games, venture investment: CyberAgent keeps launching businesses, and its Shibuya offices are built for the engineers and creators who make them — a room for deep focus, a lounge for learning, and a long list of programmes so people can stay for years.
Read the CyberAgent office →Questions
WALL has picked 12: KONAMI (Tokyo), ASAHI SHIMBUN (Chūō, Tokyo), BANDAI NAMCO (Tokyo), HEXA DRIVE (Tokyo & Osaka), ManpowerGroup Japan (Shibaura, Tokyo), HAPPY ELEMENTS (Shimogyō, Kyoto), MITSUI & CO. (Otemachi, Tokyo), OEC (Oita), HBA (Sapporo), YRGLM (Osaka), SAZABY LEAGUE (Tokyo), CyberAgent (Shibuya, 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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