Japanese office buildings: commercial property

Japanese Office Buildings: Workplace Designs

Contemporary Commercial Architecture in Japan, East Asia Property Developments News

post updated 6 November 2026

25 July 2026
Hashima Office, Hashima City, southern Gifu Prefecture (1051 Sugasakai, Hirakata, Fukuju-cho), Chūbu region
Architecture: PERMANENT Co., Ltd. and Atelier Nagara Architects (Joint Design)

photo : Kenta Hasegawa (OFP Inc.)

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21 July 2025
VECTORS Office Building, Fukuoka City, Kyushu Island
Design: SAKO Architects

photo : Misae Hiromatsu

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Japanese Office Building Designs

Key recent Japanese Commercial Property Projects, chronological:

8 September 2023
Layered Office, Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture
Design: NoMaDoS

photo : Ito Takamune Photo Office
This is a plan to rebrand and renovate the headquarters of a company supporting the well-known tile projects of Morioka City buildings. Maruno Corporation has been engaged in tile projects for almost 90 years since its inception, and its headquarters building has a history of 50 years, accumulating long-term technology and history.

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1 Jun 2018
Panasonic Design Kyoto Building
Design: Takehiro Ikeda

image courtesy of architects office
Panasonic Headquarters Kyoto
Panasonic is marking its centenary with a new, mixed-use studio, tastefully incorporating core elements of Japanese culture into its design to help stimulate creative inspiration: Panasonic Headquarters in Kyoto.

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Major Office Architecture Projects, alphabetical:

Kakogawa City Office, Hyogo Prefecture
Design: Akira Sakamoto

image courtesy of architects office
Kakogawa City building

Kure City Ondo Civic Center, Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture
Design: Kengo Kuma & Associates

image courtesy of architects office
Japanese Civic Center

Mitsumura Office, Kobe-city
Design: Tadashi Suga Architect

photo : Yoshiharu Matsumura
Mitsumura Office

Saint-Gobain Headquarters, Kojimachi
Design: albert abut architecture

image courtesy of architects office
Saint-Gobain Headquarters

Shin-Marunouchi Building, Tokyo
Design: Hopkins Architects

photograph : Miyagawa Inc
Tokyo architecture
The Shin-Marunouchi building, representing one of Mitsubishi Estates’ thirty- two properties in the Marunouchi area, is part of the First Stage of the Marunouchi Redevelopment Project. Stage Two will begin in 2008 with the reconstruction of the Mitsubishi Shoji, Furukawa and Marunouchi Yaesu Buildings.

Tanigami Office + Gallery, Yamada-cho, Kita-ku, Kobe-city, Hyogo prefecture
Date built: 1999
Design: Junya Toda Architect & Associates

image courtesy of architects office
Kobe-city architecture

TBWAHakuhodo, Tokyo bay area
Design: Klein Dytham architecture

photograph : Kozo Takayama
TBWAHakuhodo Tokyo
Redevelopment of an old bowling alley in a large 8-storey amusement complex. Bowling alleys are column free, and after removing the suspended ceiling a double height space with 2m deep down-stand beams was revealed. The overriding rhythm of the beams naturally lead the office to be arranged in ‘bowling lanes’ with circulation between them.