JAPAN'S BEST-DESIGNED OFFICES
01 · TokyoNEW
ERICSSON
A round meeting room
Ericsson, the Swedish telecoms equipment maker, wanted its Japanese office to keep up with a fast-changing business and a growing headcount.
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12 Round Tables and Curved Walls in Japanese Offices
Round tables, circular ceilings and curved walls — the softer shapes inside Japanese offices.
Straight lines rule most office floors. These offices break them with round tables, curved benches and circular ceilings, often at the points where people gather.
12 officesTokyo 9Hiroshima 1Chiba 1Miyagi 16 industries12 added October 2026
02 · HiroshimaNEW
OTAFUKU SAUCE
A round table
Otafuku, the Hiroshima maker of okonomiyaki sauce founded in 1922, turned a former warehouse into the Otafuku Borderless Base.
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03 · ChibaNEW
TOYO ENGINEERING
Under a circular ceiling
Toyo Engineering’s new head office in Chiba is planned like an industrial plant: routes run through the floors the way piping carries energy round a plant.
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04 · Chūō, TokyoNEW
ASAHI SHIMBUN
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.
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05 · Minato, TokyoNEW
IDOM
A round bench
IDOM runs the Gulliver used-car brand, with about 460 shops across Japan.
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06 · Akishima, TokyoNEW
IHI
A round bench
IHI built a new east building at its Akishima site to bring together the offices of its aero-engine business.
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07 · Musashino, TokyoNEW
YOKOGAWA
A round sit-stand table
Yokogawa Electric’s business development centre and its start-up amnimo share an office in Musashino built on the SECI model of knowledge creation.
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08 · TokyoNEW
SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION
The round tables
One of Japan’s three largest banks opens its head office and four of its working floors — a lobby, a cafeteria, and departments where the desks sit under full-height planting.
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09 · Taiwa, MiyagiNEW
TOHOKU KEIKI
The curved bench in the meeting area
An instrument maker north of Sendai finished a new building in 2025 and put the making on the ground floor and the thinking upstairs.
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10 · TokyoNEW
Congrès
The round tables
The company that runs Japan’s conferences has built its own Tokyo head office out of the things a conference needs — a room with stepped benches, glass on every meeting room, and a break space you can drop a screen in.
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11 · Marunouchi, TokyoNEW
Calbee
The curved wall
The crisp maker’s head office sits twenty-two floors up in Marunouchi, and the room it is arranged around is called the Patio — an indoor courtyard with trees in it, a long way from any ground.
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12 · Shibaura, TokyoNEW
ManpowerGroup Japan
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.
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About this collection
Which offices in Japan feature in “Round tables & curved walls”?
WALL has picked 12: ERICSSON (Tokyo), OTAFUKU SAUCE (Hiroshima), TOYO ENGINEERING (Chiba), ASAHI SHIMBUN (Chūō, Tokyo), IDOM (Minato, Tokyo), IHI (Akishima, Tokyo), YOKOGAWA (Musashino, Tokyo), SUMITOMO MITSUI BANKING CORPORATION (Tokyo), TOHOKU KEIKI (Taiwa, Miyagi), Congrès (Tokyo), Calbee (Marunouchi, Tokyo), ManpowerGroup Japan (Shibaura, Tokyo).
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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