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Rooms built for the whole company at once — a stage, a screen and a floor that holds everyone.
Japanese companies hold all-hands meetings, study sessions and launches in-house, and many offices now build a stage for them — stepped seating, a screen and a floor that clears for a crowd.
01 · Azabu-Juban, Tokyo
The central stage and café
Under the mission mural, a barrier-free stage and floor hold about 500 people: lunch every day, a sales-wide morning meeting on Tuesdays, onboarding events on Fridays.
Read the Indeed Japan office →
02 · Takeshiba, Tokyo
Event space
For food and events there is an event space with a large screen and stage, a “society space” for up to 100 people that turns into a public viewing for baseball season, a café counter with snacks and sweets, and community spaces for team dinners and client meals.
Read the SoftBank office →
03 · Meguro, Tokyo
Seminar room Opera, door desks overhead
The 120-seat seminar room Opera has coloured chairs and door desks on the ceiling; the rooms on this floor are named after music — rock, samba, jazz, techno.
Read the Amazon Japan office →
04 · Shibuya, Tokyo
Single-seat sofas, the seminar layout
A free space born so that study groups and tech events could be held casually, open to engineers from inside and outside the company; the logo is a light bulb drawn in soft curves.
Read the CyberAgent office →
05 · Minatomirai, Yokohama
KT Zepp Yokohama
On the first and second floors sits KT Zepp Yokohama, a new kind of hall that combines Zepp’s strengths as a live music venue with the company’s entertainment know-how.
Read the KOEI TECMO office →
06 · Akasaka, Tokyo
Tables in the Hall
The Hall is 120 m² and seats 80, with a stage, tables that can be rearranged freely and a magnetic wall for posting ideas.
Read the KAONAVI office →
07 · Tokyo
The opening event in the square
The opening event here was a talk by the president to the whole company.
Read the BANDAI NAMCO office →
08 · Tokyo
Tiered seating
5F has a wide space with tiered seating and colourful chairs for large meetings and study sessions.
Read the PIXIV office →
10 · Roppongi, Tokyo
STADIUM
STADIUM is the open room where the company gathers.
Read the HANASAKU LIFE office →
11 · Nishi-Oi, Tokyo
The great stair, used as seating
The ground-floor atrium is a stepped hall fitted with a large screen and a sound system. Company events are held here, including the ceremonies that open the working year.
Read the NIKON office →
12 · Oita
OEC CUBE and the Great Staircase
It is kept deliberately simple, to encourage free thinking and many different kinds of experience, and its centrepiece is the Great Staircase — steps wide enough to sit on, used for presentations and discussions.
Read the OEC office →
13 · Shibuya, Tokyo
The stadium seating
A large screen faces tiered “stadium” seating used for seminars and team meetings — and for watching the World Cup and the Olympics together.
Read the TRANSCOSMOS office →
14 · TokyoNEW
The reception lounge and its stage
Ridgelinez was set up to help companies with digital transformation, and Gensler designed its first office from workplace strategy to interiors and digital content.
Read the RIDGELINEZ office →Questions
WALL has picked 14: Indeed Japan (Azabu-Juban, Tokyo), SoftBank (Takeshiba, Tokyo), Amazon Japan (Meguro, Tokyo), CyberAgent (Shibuya, Tokyo), KOEI TECMO (Minatomirai, Yokohama), KAONAVI (Akasaka, Tokyo), BANDAI NAMCO (Tokyo), PIXIV (Tokyo), MURATA (Nagaokakyo, Kyoto), HANASAKU LIFE (Roppongi, Tokyo), NIKON (Nishi-Oi, Tokyo), OEC (Oita), TRANSCOSMOS (Shibuya, Tokyo), RIDGELINEZ (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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