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Head offices and studios outside Tokyo, from Sapporo to Kumamoto.
Most office tours stop at Tokyo. These offices are in regional cities — Sapporo, Kochi, Fukuoka, Okayama, Kumamoto and more — where companies have more room and often a closer link to the town around them.
01 · Sapporo
An ABW area
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 →
02 · Furukawa, Miyagi
The entrance hall
At its Sendai Development Center in Furukawa, in Miyagi, Alps Alpine tore down three existing buildings and put up a new R&D building.
Read the ALPS ALPINE office →
03 · Kochi
The 8th-floor entrance
The Kochi Shimbun, first published in 1904, moved into floors four to eight of an eight-storey building ahead of its 120th anniversary.
Read the KOCHI SHIMBUN office →
04 · Tokushima
The entrance
When Earth Pet built a new research building at its Tokushima office, it wanted something the pet industry had never had: a research facility you can visit.
Read the EARTH PET office →
05 · Takamatsu, Kagawa
The entrance
Shikoku Instrumentation moved part of its head office, from Nakatado in Kagawa, up into the Takamatsu Symbol Tower — the tallest building in Shikoku.
Read the SHIKOKU INSTRUMENTATION office →
06 · Tenjin, Fukuoka
The galvalume wall in the port lounge
A year in the making, the Fukuoka floor takes the harbour as its theme: real galvalume cladding brought indoors, container locks that actually slide, marine lamps and glass floats, no chairs on the water side, and WE BUILD BRIDGES painted across the window wall.
Read the KINTO TECHNOLOGIES office →
07 · Higashi, Kumamoto
The reception hall
A health-food company in Kumamoto has built into its own building a canteen seating two hundred and fifty, an izakaya, a gym with outside instructors, and two nurseries open from half past seven in the morning.
Read the EGAO office →
08 · Oita
The reception, Fukuoka Branch
OEC is an IT company with two head offices, one in Oita and one in Tokyo.
Read the OEC office →
09 · Okayama
The entrance, in blue tile
This Okayama software company finished a new head office in June 2025 built structurally out of CLT made from certified Okayama timber — and used the same warm material for the rooms its clients demand the tightest security in.
Read the SERIO office →
10 · Kanon-shinmachi, Hiroshima
Giant Steps
Molten makes the balls used in international basketball and volleyball.
Read the MOLTEN office →
11 · Himeji, Hyogo
The reception
A reuse company in Himeji built itself a new head office in 2025 around a single vertical space: an atrium with a great stair that climbs from the entrance to the fourth floor, and on to a terrace with Himeji Castle in view.
Read the ECO RING office →
12 · Nara
The lobby
The Nanto Bank opened its new head office in Nara on 10 February 2025, with a low-rise base meant to read as tradition, an upper block meant to read as growth, and a second-floor gallery showing the things found in the ground while it was being built.
Read the THE NANTO BANK office →
13 · Kyoto
The entrance hall at the Kantō branch
The publisher of the Chart-shiki study guides shows three offices: a Kyoto head office built to sit quietly near the Imperial Palace, a Tokyo building in the publishing district, and a branch in Sumida with a four-storey void and a garden that looks at the Skytree.
Read the SUKEN SHUPPAN office →
14 · Mizuho, Gifu
The LinkStory entrance
LinkStory, a web design and production company, renovated its own building in Mizuho, Gifu, in 2022.
Read the LINKSTORY office →
15 · Numazu, Shizuoka
The reception
This Shizuoka builder does its own carpentry in-house, and when it built its own head office in March 2020 it took out the partitions between departments, put a café lounge in the middle of the second floor and cut a void through to the third.
Read the HEISEI KENSETSU office →
16 · Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
The working floor
A regional credit union in Shizuoka rejected the choice between private rooms and one big room.
Read the HAMAMATSU IWATA SHINKIN BANK office →Questions
WALL has picked 16: HBA (Sapporo), ALPS ALPINE (Furukawa, Miyagi), KOCHI SHIMBUN (Kochi), EARTH PET (Tokushima), SHIKOKU INSTRUMENTATION (Takamatsu, Kagawa), KINTO TECHNOLOGIES (Tenjin, Fukuoka), EGAO (Higashi, Kumamoto), OEC (Oita), SERIO (Okayama), MOLTEN (Kanon-shinmachi, Hiroshima), ECO RING (Himeji, Hyogo), THE NANTO BANK (Nara), SUKEN SHUPPAN (Kyoto), LINKSTORY (Mizuho, Gifu), HEISEI KENSETSU (Numazu, Shizuoka), HAMAMATSU IWATA SHINKIN BANK (Hamamatsu, Shizuoka).
They are spread across 15 places: Shizuoka (2), Sapporo (1), Miyagi (1), Kochi (1), Tokushima (1), Kagawa (1), Fukuoka (1), Kumamoto (1), Oita (1), Okayama (1), Hiroshima (1), Hyogo (1), Nara (1), Kyoto (1), Gifu (1).
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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