JOIN083 — Shimonoseki: a start-up base with a stage, in a department store

JOIN083 is a start-up base on the seventh floor of the Daimaru department store in Shimonoseki. Genbakan’s designed the 166 m² space around a central stage, to be both a platform for new ventures and a place to broadcast ideas to the rest of the country.

Client Regional ManagementLocation Daimaru Shimonoseki 7F, YamaguchiCompleted 2020Floor area 166 m²Design Genbakan’s

Concept

A stage

At the centre is a “stage for transmission”. Around it, movable fixtures like stage props form a backstage of places to concentrate, relax and swap ideas.

Offline, chance meetings with department-store shoppers bring in street-level information; online, the stage helps founders reach people nationwide.

01 · Hybrid

Online and offline

The designers see it as a regional base that keeps evolving through a mix of online and offline activity.

02 · Stories

Everyone on stage

It is meant to be a stage where the people who use it connect and create their own stories.

CompanyJOIN083 (Regional Management) ↗

DesignGenbakan’s

PhotographyKoichi Torimura

SourceTECTURE MAG, “舞台は、〇〇”, re-reported by WALL ↗

PublishedOctober 2026

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