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Offices in Japan where you can climb, stretch or train without leaving the building.
A small number of Japanese offices build movement into the building itself: gyms, studios and climbing walls on the same floors as the desks.
01 · Meguro, Tokyo
The bouldering wall
On the top floor, 19, the first thing you see is a 3.8-metre bouldering wall — the right half reserved for the company climbing club, the left for beginners, shoes lent on request.
Read the Amazon Japan office →
02 · Meguro, Tokyo
The climbing wall
A mirrored space is used for yoga and stretching, and a bouldering wall runs along the windows.
Read the Akatsuki office →
03 · Takeshiba, Tokyo
Exercise equipment and the internal staircase
The internal staircase and exercise equipment on the floors are part of a health push; walking events on the company’s HELPO app draw more than 1,000 participants each time.
Read the SoftBank office →
04 · Nihonbashi, Tokyo
The fitness facility
There is a meditation room, a fitness facility in the building, and a healthy menu at the café and pantry.
Read the MITSUI FUDOSAN office →
05 · Atsugi, KanagawaNEW
The gym
Sony’s Atsugi Technology Center has been producing the company’s leading technology since it opened.
Read the SONY office →
06 · Higashi, KumamotoNEW
The gym
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 →
07 · OsakaNEW
Bouldering, inside the break area
Cygames states its office policy in one line — developers should be able to concentrate on developing in comfort — and then spends it on a library of ten thousand volumes, a bouldering wall, a massage room and a motion-capture stage with 168 cameras in it.
Read the CYGAMES office →
08 · Minamisemba, OsakaNEW
The gym
Colantotte makes magnetic accessories that are certified to ease stiff shoulders.
Read the COLANTOTTE office →Questions
WALL has picked 8: Amazon Japan (Meguro, Tokyo), Akatsuki (Meguro, Tokyo), SoftBank (Takeshiba, Tokyo), MITSUI FUDOSAN (Nihonbashi, Tokyo), SONY (Atsugi, Kanagawa), EGAO (Higashi, Kumamoto), CYGAMES (Osaka), COLANTOTTE (Minamisemba, Osaka).
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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