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Asahi Group Holdings Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Asahi Group Holdings · Tokyo, Japan
A headquarters built to look like a mug of beer — amber glass with white “foam” on top — beside a 44-meter golden flame by Philippe Starck.
The building, the benefits and the road from a brewery in Suita village to the banks of the Sumida River. Every fact from Asahi's own website, IR data and recruiting pages.
- ≈ 100 mtall, shaped like an overflowing beer mug
- 44 m · 360 tgolden “Flamme d’Or” on the Asahi Group Hall
- 10 daysextra paid leave for new fathers (26 Japanese group companies)
- ¥90,000yearly cafeteria-plan allowance (Asahi Breweries)
Sources: asahigroup-holdings.com (Headquarters & Hall, Corporate Overview, History) · Newsroom, Sep 16, 2022 · Asahi Breweries recruiting site
Companies / Japan / Beverages / Asahi Group Holdings
THE HEADQUARTERS · AZUMABASHI · 1989
A tower shaped like a mug of beer, with a golden flame next door
Asahi built its headquarters for its 100th anniversary on part of the site of its old Azumabashi Brewery. The tower's amber mirrored glass is meant to look like freshly poured beer up to the 20th floor; the 21st and 22nd floors are clad in white like a frothy head, and they house a panoramic restaurant. Next door, the Asahi Group Hall by Philippe Starck carries the golden Flamme d’Or, and inside takes its cues from a luxury cruise ship: columns shaped like beer foam and white marble staircases.
- Nearly 100 m tall
- Amber glass to the 20th floor, white “foam” on 21–22
- Completed October 1989
- Design: Nikken Sekkei · Philippe Starck · GETT
- Built for Asahi's centennial
The beer-mug tower and the golden flame
Amber mirrored glass up to the 20th floor and a white “foam” top on the 21st and 22nd floors, beside Philippe Starck's 44-meter Flamme d’Or.
Inside the Asahi Group Hall
Starck's hall takes its cues from a luxury cruise ship, with columns shaped like beer foam and white marble staircases.
Along the Sumida River with Tokyo Skytree
The headquarters stands on part of the old Azumabashi Brewery site, at 1-23-1 Azumabashi in Sumida.
Facts: asahigroup-holdings.com “Asahi Group Headquarters and Asahi Group Hall” · Obayashi Corporation project page “Asahi Beer Tower, Super Dry Hall”
The Azumabashi headquarters
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Asahi Group Headquarters Building | 1-23-1 Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-8602 |
| Suita Brewery & Asahi Beer Museum (birthplace) | 1-45 Nishinosho-cho, Suita, Osaka |
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview · Asahi Breweries customer FAQ “When was Asahi Beer founded?” · See them on the map ↓
Source: Obayashi Corporation project page (design, builder, completion) · asahigroup-holdings.com Headquarters & Hall (height, flame). Floor area is not published on official pages we could read.
Benefits (Japan · Asahi Breweries)
A yearly allowance to spend on a menu of benefits chosen by each employee.
Special paid leave for fathers on top of annual leave and the legal scheme — with weekends, two weeks or more in a row. Introduced Oct 1, 2022 at 26 Japanese group companies.
Parents can take leave until the child turns two; maternity leave of up to 14 weeks.
Special leave of 10 days per child (up to 20) until the child starts junior high school.
Staff are encouraged to take six days in a row once a year, plus two “memorial” days off planned in advance.
Super-flextime hours, working from home and short-time work for study or second-career preparation.
A choice of company-leased or company-owned housing across Japan, housing savings, loans and support for staff posted away from family.
A yearly communication allowance per person, plus club subsidies and contracted resorts and leisure facilities.
Source: Asahi Breweries new-graduate recruiting site (asahibeer.co.jp/saiyo/company) · Asahi Group Holdings newsroom, Sep 16, 2022 (paternity leave). Benefits at overseas group companies differ.
Why people stay: what Asahi itself describes
An internal job-posting system for roles such as product development and management posts at overseas group companies.
Employees can apply directly to the head of the department they want to join; every employee files a long-term career plan.
Young staff shadow top sellers inside the group, and future leaders are seconded for a fixed term to companies in other industries.
Volunteer mentors are appointed to guide new hires; all group companies hold joint new-employee training.
People who left for childcare or caring for family can be rehired; skill-up leave covers study or following a spouse abroad.
Source: Asahi Breweries new-graduate recruiting site (asahibeer.co.jp/saiyo/company)
Who works here
employees (Dec 31, 2025)
countries and regions where the group does business
regional headquarters: Japan & East Asia, Europe, Asia Pacific
men at five Japanese companies covered by the 2022 paternity-leave scheme
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview and Careers (Message from the Group CPO) · Newsroom, Sep 16, 2022
Office history: from Suita village back to the old Azumabashi brewery
- 1889 The Osaka Beer Company is founded
In November 1889 Komakichi Torii, Shuzo Toyama and others founded the Osaka Beer Company in Osaka — the forerunner of today's Asahi Group Holdings. Torii became its president.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com History · Asahi Breweries customer FAQ
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1891 The Suita Village brewery
The company's brewery at 806 Suita Village (today 1-45 Nishinosho-cho, Suita) was completed in October 1891, and “Asahi Beer” went on sale from there in May 1892. It is still Asahi's Suita Brewery; a brick wall from the early days survives in its guest house, and the Asahi Beer Museum opened there in 2022.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com History · Asahi Breweries customer FAQ · Asahi Breweries news, Apr 15, 2022
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1903 Azumabashi Brewery on today's headquarters site
From 1903 to 1985 the Azumabashi Brewery made beer on the very site where the headquarters stands now — for more than 80 years.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com “Asahi Group Headquarters and Asahi Group Hall”
Azumabashi Brewery, 1955 · © Asahi Group Holdings - 1906 Merger into Dai Nippon Brewery
Osaka Beer, Nippon Beer and Sapporo Beer merged in March 1906 to form Dai Nippon Brewery.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1949 Asahi Breweries is born
Under Japan's anti-monopoly law Dai Nippon Brewery was split in two, and Asahi Breweries was established in September 1949 with Tamesaburo Yamamoto as president.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1985 The Azumabashi Brewery closes
Brewing at Azumabashi stopped and the land was sold as part of a corporate restructuring.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com “Asahi Group Headquarters and Asahi Group Hall”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1989 Back to Azumabashi: the centennial headquarters
After the success of Asahi Super Dry (1987), the company bought back part of the old brewery site and completed its new headquarters building and hall in October 1989 for its 100th anniversary. It renamed itself Asahi Breweries, Ltd. the same year.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com History and Headquarters & Hall
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2011 A holding company in the same tower
In July 2011 Asahi Breweries became the pure holding company Asahi Group Holdings, and a new Asahi Breweries took over the Japanese alcohol business. Both are still headquartered in the Azumabashi building.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com History and Headquarters & Hall
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a brewery in Suita village outside Osaka to the Sumida River in Tokyo — and back onto the land where Asahi once brewed beer from 1903 to 1985.
- 1 · 1891Suita Village brewery (today's Suita Brewery) — 1-45 Nishinosho-cho, Suita, Osaka — where “Asahi Beer” was first brewed
- 2 · 1903Azumabashi Brewery — Brewing on today's headquarters site, 1903–1985
- 3 · 1989Asahi Group Headquarters, Azumabashi — 1-23-1 Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo — headquarters today
Addresses: Asahi Breweries customer FAQ · asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview and Headquarters & Hall · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Asahi Group Holdings does
Asahi began as the Osaka Beer Company in 1889. Today it sells beer, other alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and food — from Asahi Super Dry to Peroni Nastro Azzurro — and provides over 10 billion liters of beverages a year.
Since 2025 the group reports three regions: Japan & East Asia, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Where the money came from · Revenue by region, 2025
Source: Asahi Group IR data (Segment Information by Region, 2025~) · asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview. Adjustments of ¥16.1B not shown.
Source: Asahi Group IR data (Financial Highlights, IFRS) · asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥2.12T → ¥2.89T
≈ 30,000 people in 100+ countries and regions
Calendar years, IFRS. Revenue: Asahi Group IR data (Financial Highlights). Employees: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview (Dec 31, 2025); earlier headcounts are in securities reports we could not read. Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President and Group CEO since March 2021; Director and Representative Executive Officer.
President from March 2016; that October Asahi bought the former SABMiller businesses in Italy, the Netherlands and the UK.
President from March 2010, through the July 2011 move to a holding company.
Founders of the Osaka Beer Company (1889): Komakichi Torii (first president), Shuzo Toyama and others.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview and History · Asahi Breweries customer FAQ
Asahi Group Holdings: questions people ask
Where is Asahi Group's headquarters?
At 1-23-1 Azumabashi, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, on the Sumida River across from Asakusa. The Asahi Group Headquarters Building stands next to the Asahi Group Hall with its golden flame.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview
Why does the Asahi headquarters look like a glass of beer?
It was designed to resemble an overflowing mug of beer: amber mirrored glass up to the 20th floor evokes freshly poured beer, and the white 21st and 22nd floors suggest the frothy head.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Headquarters & Hall
What is the golden object on the Asahi building?
The Flamme d’Or, a 44-meter, 360-ton steel flame by Philippe Starck on top of the Asahi Group Hall. Asahi says it represents its burning passion and drive toward a new century.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Headquarters & Hall
Who designed the Asahi headquarters?
Nikken Sekkei, with Philippe Starck and GETT for the hall. It was completed in October 1989 by Obayashi with other contractors.
Source: Obayashi Corporation project page
When was the headquarters built?
In 1989, as a project for Asahi's 100th anniversary, on part of the site of its former Azumabashi Brewery, which brewed beer there from 1903 to 1985.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Headquarters & Hall
Can you visit the Asahi headquarters?
The buildings are offices, but the top floors of the headquarters hold a panoramic restaurant, and the Beer Restaurant Flamme d’Or in the Asahi Group Hall is open to the public. In Suita, Osaka, the Asahi Beer Museum at the original brewery offers tours.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Headquarters & Hall · Asahi Breweries news, Apr 15, 2022
What benefits does Asahi offer in Japan?
At Asahi Breweries: a ¥90,000 yearly cafeteria plan, company housing, childcare leave until a child turns two, 10 days of child-raising leave per child, a six-day refresh holiday and a ¥12,000 communication allowance. Fathers at 26 Japanese group companies get 10 extra paid days off.
Source: Asahi Breweries recruiting site · Newsroom, Sep 16, 2022
Can Asahi employees work from home?
Asahi Breweries offers a work-from-home system and super-flextime hours, alongside short-time work.
Source: Asahi Breweries recruiting site
How many people work at Asahi Group?
28,560 employees as of December 31, 2025, in a group that does business in more than 100 countries and regions.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview and Careers
Who is Asahi Group's CEO?
Atsushi Katsuki, President and Group CEO since March 2021.
Source: asahigroup-holdings.com Corporate Overview and History
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