KOKUYO “DIG” — Minato: a learning space modelled on a family restaurant

DISCOVER & SHARE PLACE “DIG” is KOKUYO’s 174 m² staff-development space in Minato, Tokyo, finished in 2025. With direction by DDAA, KOKUYO took hints from the Japanese family restaurant, the famiresu, to make a place where staff dig into their own interests and share know-how and passion with colleagues.

Client KOKUYO Co., Ltd.Location Minato, TokyoCompleted 2025Area about 174 m²Design Direction by DDAA (Daisuke Motogi); interior by KOKUYOConstruction TANK

Concept

Discover and share

Research pulled out the elements that make family restaurants free and multi-purpose. Private booths are the “DISCOVER” spaces, and one large room is the “SHARE” space.

01 · Booths

Immersion and wandering

Box seats where people can lose themselves in their work are the main element. Destinations such as a drink bar are scattered so that people walk around and are stimulated by what others are doing.

02 · Messages

Ideas taking shape

Planting and signs express how a person’s thinking gradually takes shape through exploration, with messages to staff placed around the space.

CompanyKOKUYO Co., Ltd. ↗

DesignDDAA / KOKUYO

PhotographyKenta Hasegawa

Sourceコクヨ空間事例, “DISCOVER & SHARE PLACE “DIG””, re-reported by WALL ↗

PublishedOctober 2026

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