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Bandai Namco Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan

Four views of a forest-themed lounge with timber frames, moss walls, a pantry counter and a caravan-shaped booth — Forest-themed lounge · © Okamura Corporation

Tall glass and pale-panel office tower seen from street level against an evening sky — From the street · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Four views of a lounge in red corrugated metal, brick and wood with cafe tables, a pantry and a curved timber bench — Themed lounge · © Okamura Corporation

Large cafeteria with wooden chairs, round tables and a colourful mural under an exposed ceiling — Marche, the staff cafeteria · © Bandai Namco Nexus Inc.

White wall lettered 12TH FLOOR beside a wall of wooden blocks in mixed shades — 12th-floor entrance · © Okamura Corporation

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Bandai Namco · Tokyo, Japan

A head office called the “Future Research Lab”, where every floor's lounge has its own theme — and its own drinks, so people wander upstairs and down to visit.

The Mirai Kenkyusho office, the benefits and 76 years of head-office moves from Asakusa and Ota-ku to Shiba — then the business. Every number from Bandai Namco's own website, ESG data and group careers pages, plus the interior designer's project page.

≈ 1,100people on Bandai Namco Entertainment's five office floors
13.1 yearsaverage time at the company (FY2025, main Japanese companies)
11,457group employees, March 2026
¥3,000,000gift for a third child (group-wide)

See inside the office Benefits

Sources: Okamura project page 161101 · Bandai Namco group recruitment site (Workplace) · Bandai Namco ESG Data: Social · Bandai Namco IR for individual investors (March 2026)

Companies / Japan / Entertainment / Bandai Namco

THE HEAD OFFICE · BANDAI NAMCO MIRAI KENKYUSHO · 2016

“An exciting communication office”, one theme per floor

Bandai Namco Entertainment's floors (8th–12th) in the Mirai Kenkyusho were designed by Okamura around the idea of a “waku-waku” (exciting) communication office. Desks run alternately lengthwise and crosswise so that eyes meet, open meeting spots line the west windows, and every floor has a pantry lounge with its own theme and its own drinks — so people regularly drop in on other floors. On the top floor is Marche, the staff cafeteria, with daily set meals, rice bowls, soba, udon and pasta.

8,100 m² of office (≈ 87,200 sq ft), floors 8–12
≈ 1,100 people (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
A themed pantry lounge on every floor
Top-floor cafeteria “Marche”
Interior design: Okamura (2016)

Themed pantry lounges, one per floor

Every Bandai Namco Entertainment floor has a pantry lounge with its own theme and its own drinks, so people regularly drop in on other floors.

Glass-walled corner room with a basketball hoop, wooden slats and cafe tables by tall windows — Lounge by the windows · © Okamura Corporation

Four views of a beach-themed lounge with surfboards, white picket railings, blue booths and a pale-blue pantry — Beach-themed lounge · © Okamura Corporation

Four views of a lounge styled like wooden cottages, with striped sofas, high tables and wooden stools — Cottage-themed lounge · © Okamura Corporation

Pantry with dark wood cabinets, a long banquette and framed pictures on a white wall — Pantry lounge · © Okamura Corporation

Four wall finishes in tile, yellow slats with a picket fence, red corrugated metal and reclaimed wood — A different look on each floor · © Okamura Corporation

Entrances and meeting spaces

Okamura designed Bandai Namco Entertainment's 8th–12th floors around the idea of an exciting communication office, completed in February 2016.

Meeting room with a long white table, black chairs, a wall screen and floor-to-ceiling windows — Meeting room · © Okamura Corporation

Private office with a curved pale-wood desk, a mesh chair and a small meeting table — Executive office · © Okamura Corporation

Long boardroom table lined with white chairs facing two wall screens — Boardroom · © Okamura Corporation

Meeting rooms and the Marche cafeteria

On the top floor of the Mirai Kenkyusho is Marche, the staff cafeteria, with daily set meals, rice bowls, soba, udon and pasta.

Small meeting space with a purple banquette, round tables and wooden chairs under globe lamps — Meeting room · © Bandai Namco Nexus Inc.

Meeting room with a quilted grey bench, white table, high-back chairs and a wall screen — Meeting room · © Bandai Namco Nexus Inc.

Round table with mesh chairs under a ring light in a white and grey meeting room — Meeting room · © Bandai Namco Nexus Inc.

Facts: Okamura project page 161101 (Bandai Namco Entertainment) · Bandai Namco Nexus careers page “Working environment” (Mirai Kenkyusho cafeteria and meeting rooms)

Shiba, Minato-ku

Building	Address
Bandai Namco Mirai Kenkyusho (head office)	5-37-8 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014

Source: Bandai Namco Holdings, Corporate Data · See them on the map ↓

Moved inFrom January 2016, in stages

Companies that moved5, incl. the holding company

Interior designOkamura (Bandai Namco Entertainment floors)

Office area (8F–12F)8,100 m² (≈ 87,200 sq ft)

Interior completedFebruary 2016

Staff cafeteriaMarche, top floor

Source: Bandai Namco History · Okamura project page 161101 · Bandai Namco Nexus careers page. The building's architect and total floor area are not published by the company.

Office tour videos

First look: where the “Motto Fan-ka” team works (head office tour)Bandai Namco Amusement Unit (official) — Bandai Namco Amusement's head office, not the Mirai Kenkyusho · 2022 · YouTube ↗

Benefits (Bandai Namco Entertainment and the group, Japan)

Birth gift¥3,000,000

For a third child or later, across the group. At Bandai Namco Entertainment, ¥200,000 each for a first and second child.

School-start gifts¥50,000–200,000

When a child starts nursery or kindergarten (¥50,000), elementary (¥100,000), junior high (¥150,000) and high school (¥200,000).

Days off a year125

Annual holidays at Bandai Namco Entertainment (2026), against a Japanese average of 112.4. Staff took 14.3 days of paid leave on average in FY2025.

Entertainment days1 day + ¥10,000 a month

First-year graduates get one working day a month to play, watch and try entertainment, with ¥10,000 a month to spend on it.

Fathers on childcare leave88.2%

Share of men at Bandai Namco Entertainment taking childcare leave in FY2025 (women 100%). Leave can run until the child's second birthday.

Life Support LeaveUp to 30 days

Unpaid leave a year to care for family or a child who cannot attend school, or shorter hours instead; group-wide it also covers fertility treatment.

Spouse's childbirth5 days

Up to five days off when a spouse gives birth, separate from childcare leave; also up to five days for a wedding.

Employee share planCompany incentive

Buy Bandai Namco shares by payroll deduction; the company adds an incentive in proportion to what you put in. Defined-contribution retirement plan too.

Source: Bandai Namco Entertainment careers, “Work Environment / Welfare” (2026) · Bandai Namco group recruitment site, “Workplace”. Some programs are not offered at every group company.

Why people stay: what Bandai Namco itself reports

13.1 yrsAverage length of service

Men 14.5 years, women 10.6 years, across the group's main Japanese companies in FY2025.

92.1%New graduates still there

Retention rate of newly hired university graduates in FY2025.

98.7%Back after childcare leave

Share of employees returning to work after childcare leave in FY2025; 89.1% of eligible men took leave.

77.4%Of paid leave taken

13.4 days a year on average in FY2025; the group target is 70% or more.

Career planAsk to move

A career-plan sheet lets employees tell their manager which department or job they want next; 100% receive periodic career reviews.

AwardBandai Namco Award

Each year the team that shone most — for a hit, creativity, a challenge or buzz — is honored, alongside group-wide and global training.

Source: Bandai Namco ESG Data: Social (scope: Bandai Namco Holdings, Bandai, Bandai Spirits, Bandai Namco Entertainment, Filmworks, Music Live, Experience, Amusement and Business Arc) · Group recruitment site, “Workplace”

Who works here

Gender · full-time employees, main Japanese companies, FY2025 (4,711 people)

Men 63%Women 37%

11,457

group employees in 74 consolidated subsidiaries (March 2026)

38.8

average age, main Japanese companies (FY2025)

25.0%

of managers are women (FY2025)

256

new graduate and mid-career hires in FY2025

Source: Bandai Namco ESG Data: Social (FY2025) · IR for individual investors (employees, March 31, 2026) · Modern Slavery Act statement FY2025

Office history: from a toy wholesaler in Asakusa and a rooftop ride in Yokohama to Shiba

1950
Bandaiya, Kikuyabashi, Asakusa
Naoharu Yamashina founded Bandaiya in the Kikuyabashi area of Asakusa, Taito-ku, with ¥1 million in capital, selling celluloid and metal toys and rubber swim rings.
Source: Bandai Namco History

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1955
Nakamura Manufacturing, Ikegami, Ota-ku
Masaya Nakamura set up Nakamura Manufacturing — later Namco — in Ikegami, Ota-ku, with ¥300,000, and started with two mechanical horse rides on a Yokohama department-store roof. The same year Bandai built an office in Komagata 2-chome, Asakusa.
Source: Bandai Namco History

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1957
Namco opens a head office in Ginza
Nakamura Manufacturing opened its head office in Ginza and began selling amusement machines.
Source: Bandai Namco History

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1963
Bandai builds in Komagata 1-chome
As the business grew, Bandai built and moved into a new office in Komagata 1-chome, Asakusa.
Source: Bandai Namco History

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1985
Namco's new head office in Ota-ku
Namco completed a new headquarters building in Ota-ku, Tokyo; it had set up its Yaguchi plant there in 1970.
Source: Bandai Namco History

Namco head office, Yaguchi, Ota-ku, 2014 · Doricono / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
1989
Bandai's head office building in Komagata
Bandai completed its head office building in Komagata, Taito-ku.
Source: Bandai Namco History

Bandai head office, Komagata, Taito-ku, 2011 · Aimaimyi / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
2005
Bandai and Namco become one group
Namco Bandai Holdings was established on September 29, 2005. Before 2016 its head office was the Bandai Namco Mirai Kenkyusho building in Shinagawa-ku, which it shared with Bandai Namco Games and Bandai Namco Studios.
Source: Bandai Namco Corporate Data and History · Head office relocation notice (search-result excerpt)

The first Mirai Kenkyusho, Shinagawa-ku, 2008 · Mapio / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
2016
Five head offices move to Shiba, Minato-ku
From January 2016 the head-office functions of five group companies, including the holding company and Bandai Namco Entertainment, moved in stages to Minato-ku. The new home, at 5-37-8 Shiba, kept the Mirai Kenkyusho (“Future Research Lab”) name.
Source: Bandai Namco History · Corporate Data · Okamura project page

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Map: how the headquarters moved

Both founding companies began in Tokyo's working-class east and south — Bandai in Asakusa, Namco in Ota-ku. Since 2016 the group's heads sit together in Shiba, Minato-ku, near Tamachi.

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1 · 1950Kikuyabashi, Asakusa, Taito-ku — Bandaiya founded
2 · 1955Ikegami, Ota-ku — Nakamura Manufacturing (Namco) founded
3 · 1957Ginza, Chuo-ku — Namco head office
4 · 1963Komagata, Taito-ku — Bandai head office; new building 1989
5 · 1985Ota-ku (Yaguchi) — Namco head office building
6 · until 2016Shinagawa-ku — The first Bandai Namco Mirai Kenkyusho building, holding company head office
7 · 2016–today5-37-8 Shiba, Minato-ku — Bandai Namco Mirai Kenkyusho, head office

Addresses and districts: Bandai Namco History and Corporate Data · head office relocation notice · Locations approximate except Shiba (district-level for Asakusa, Ikegami, Ginza, Yaguchi and Shinagawa-ku)

What Bandai Namco does

Bandai Namco calls itself an entertainment group that builds everything around characters and stories (“IP”): toys, Gunpla plastic models, cards and capsule toys; home and mobile games; anime and music; and arcades. It handled more than 600 IPs in the year to March 2026.

Five segments: Toys and Hobby, Digital, Visual and Music, Amusement, and Other.

Where the money came from · Net sales by segment · FY ended March 2026

Toys and HobbyToys, Gunpla, cards, capsule toys, snacks (Bandai)

¥674.0B

DigitalHome and network games (Bandai Namco Entertainment)

¥476.6B

AmusementArcade machines and amusement facilities

¥152.7B

Visual and MusicAnime, music and live events (Bandai Namco Filmworks)

¥95.5B

Source: Bandai Namco IR, Results by Segment (FY2026.3, before eliminations; Other ¥39.0B)

Net sales, FY2026.3¥1,348.2Bup 8.6% in a year

Operating profit, FY2026.3¥189.5B14.1% margin

Gundam series sales¥254.3Bproducts and services, FY2026.3

IPs handled600+in one year, with 40,000+ products

Source: Bandai Namco IR, Consolidated Operating Results · IR for individual investors (March 2026) · growth rate calculated by eciffo

Growth: revenue vs. people

1.28×net sales, FY2024.3 → FY2026.3
¥1.05T → ¥1.35T

YearRevenueEmployees

FY2024

¥1.1T

—

FY2025

¥1.2T

—

FY2026

¥1.3T

11,457

Fiscal years end March 31 (2026 = year ended March 31, 2026). Net sales: Bandai Namco IR, Consolidated Operating Results (only the last three years are published in HTML). Employees: IR for individual investors, March 31, 2026. Multiple calculated by eciffo.

Chief executives

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2025 – today

Yuji Asako

President and Representative Director of Bandai Namco Holdings.

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2021 – 2025

Masaru Kawaguchi

President and Representative Director; became chairman in 2025.

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2015 – 2021

Mitsuaki Taguchi

President and Representative Director.

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2009 – 2015

Shukuo Ishikawa

President and Representative Director, then chairman from 2015.

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2005 – 2009

Takeo Takasu

First president of Namco Bandai Holdings, then chairman from 2009.

Founders: Naoharu Yamashina (Bandai, 1950) and Masaya Nakamura (Namco, 1955).

Source: Bandai Namco History · Corporate Data

Bandai Namco: questions people ask

Where is Bandai Namco's headquarters?

At the Bandai Namco Mirai Kenkyusho, 5-37-8 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0014. The holding company and four other group companies, including Bandai Namco Entertainment, moved their head offices there in stages from January 2016.

Source: Corporate Data · Bandai Namco History

What does “Mirai Kenkyusho” mean?

“Future Research Lab”. The name was already used for the group's previous head-office building in Shinagawa-ku and moved with it to Shiba.

Source: Corporate Data · Head office relocation notice (search-result excerpt)

Who designed Bandai Namco's office?

Okamura designed the interiors of Bandai Namco Entertainment's floors (8th–12th, about 8,100 m²), completed in February 2016, around the concept of an “exciting communication office”. The building's architect is not published by Bandai Namco.

Source: Okamura project page 161101

What is it like inside?

Desks alternate lengthwise and crosswise so people face each other, open meeting spots line the west windows, and each floor has a themed pantry lounge serving different drinks. The staff cafeteria, Marche, is on the top floor.

Source: Okamura project page 161101 · Bandai Namco Nexus careers page

Where did Bandai and Namco start?

Bandai began as Bandaiya in Kikuyabashi, Asakusa, Taito-ku in July 1950. Namco began as Nakamura Manufacturing in Ikegami, Ota-ku in June 1955, with two mechanical horse rides on a Yokohama department-store roof. The two merged into one group in 2005.

Source: Bandai Namco History

What benefits does Bandai Namco offer?

In Japan the group pays ¥3 million when an employee has a third child; Bandai Namco Entertainment also pays ¥200,000 for a first or second child, gifts of ¥50,000–200,000 when children start school, 125 days off a year and an employee share plan with a company incentive.

Source: Group recruitment site · Bandai Namco Entertainment careers

Does Bandai Namco allow remote work and flexible hours?

Flextime and telework are offered at most group companies (not all). YU-PORT opens some group sites as satellite offices for any group employee.

Source: Group recruitment site, “Workplace”

How many people work at Bandai Namco?

11,457 employees across the group (the holding company and 74 consolidated subsidiaries) at March 31, 2026.

Source: IR for individual investors · Modern Slavery Act statement FY2025

How long do people stay at Bandai Namco?

13.1 years on average at the group's main Japanese companies in FY2025 (men 14.5, women 10.6), and 92.1% of new graduates were still there in their retention measure.

Source: ESG Data: Social

Who runs Bandai Namco?

Yuji Asako, President and Representative Director of Bandai Namco Holdings since 2025, with Masaru Kawaguchi as chairman.

Source: Corporate Data · Bandai Namco History

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Bandai Namco Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan

A head office called the “Future Research Lab”, where every floor's lounge has its own theme — and its own drinks, so people wander upstairs and down to visit.