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Kirin Holdings Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Kirin Holdings · Tokyo, Japan
Kirin's Tokyo head office has a café that serves the group's own drinks — with beer about once a week after hours — next to a ping-pong playground and a nap spot on artificial grass.
The Nakano head office, the benefits in Japan and every head-office move since a brewery in Yokohama's Yamate hills in 1885 — then the business. Every fact from Kirin's own websites, careers site and news releases, plus the interior designer's project page.
- 20,000 m²head office on 4 connected floors, designed for 3,350 people
- 50%of head-office staff can be in at once — desks are free-address
- 123 daysoff a year (new-graduate terms, Kirin Holdings)
- 31,144employees worldwide (Dec 31, 2025)
Sources: Okamura project page “Kirin Holdings Group Head Office” · Kirin news releases (Jun 13, 2022; Jan 7, 2026) · Kirin careers site (new-graduate recruiting) · Company overview
Companies / Japan / Beverages / Kirin Holdings
THE HEAD OFFICE · NAKANO CENTRAL PARK SOUTH · RENEWED 2022 AND 2026
A “stadium” on four floors, joined by one central staircase
In 2022 Kirin squeezed its head office from six floors into four and rebuilt it around the idea of a stadium where people share their passion. Each floor got one shared job — guest lounge and Kirin Studio on 18F, meeting “Lab” on 19F, a big café lounge on 20F and a library on 21F — all set around a staircase linking the floors. In January 2026 a second renewal added a café with Kirin drinks, a playground, a nap and stretch corner, a book-sharing shelf and themed spaces called BAR, CAMP and YATAI.
- 20,000 m² (≈ 215,278 sq ft)
- 4 floors, 18F–21F
- Free-address desks
- Sit-stand desks throughout
- Interior: Taira Ito & Akiko Shinagawa (Okamura)
- Smoking rooms closed (2022)
The 2022 “stadium” renewal (Okamura)
In 2022 Kirin squeezed its head office from six floors into four and rebuilt it around the idea of a stadium where people share their passion.
Floor by floor: 18F guest lounge to 21F library
Each floor got one shared job — guest lounge and Kirin Studio on 18F, meeting “Lab” on 19F, a big café lounge on 20F and a library on 21F.
The 2026 café, playground and recharge spot
In January 2026 a second renewal added a café with Kirin drinks, a playground, a nap and stretch corner, a book-sharing shelf and themed spaces called BAR, CAMP and YATAI.
Nakano Central Park South from outside
In 2013 Kirin Holdings and other group companies moved into the new 21-storey Nakano Central Park South.
Facts: Kirin news releases “Kirin Group head office renewal” (Jun 13, 2022) and (Jan 7, 2026) · Kirin careers site “Office” page · Okamura project page.
Where Kirin works
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Kirin Group Head Office (Nakano Central Park South) | 4-10-2 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001, Japan |
| Kirin Central Research Institute (Shonan Health Innovation Park) | 2-26-1 Muraokahigashi, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Institute for Future Beverages / Institute for Package Innovation | 1-17-1 Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Institute for Technology of Microbial Science | 1-1 Kyowacho, Hofu-shi, Yamaguchi, Japan |
Source: Kirin Holdings company overview · See them on the map ↓
Source: Okamura project page (area, people, design, construction; photos by Nacása & Partners) · News releases Feb 10, 2012; Jun 13, 2022; Jan 7, 2026
Benefits (Japan · Kirin Holdings)
Days off a year: weekends, public holidays and New Year, plus annual paid leave.
An extra long holiday at ages 30, 40 and 50.
From April 2026, the first two weeks of childcare leave are paid special leave.
Up to ¥500,000 for parents who take a month or more of childcare leave (from April 2026).
Career-track staff choose company-leased housing or a rent subsidy.
Flextime and work from home, with a home-working allowance.
Unused annual paid leave can be saved up in a leave bank.
Kirin Group employee shareholding association, plus a retirement allowance plan.
Source: Kirin careers site — “KIRIN's growth environment” and new-graduate recruiting terms (2026 hires) · News release, Mar 25, 2026 (childcare leave and support payment).
Why people stay: what Kirin itself says
People who left of their own accord can come back to Kirin.
Internal job postings and a “Career Challenge” system let people change jobs inside the group.
Side jobs are part of the support for growing outside your main role.
An 8-day leadership program of about 50 hours, in person and online.
Men's childcare-leave rate hit 100% in 2025 at Kirin Holdings, Kirin Brewery and Kirin Beverage.
Since 2017, leave, allowances and company housing cover same-sex and common-law partners.
Source: Kirin careers site (“KIRIN's growth environment”, “Diversity”) · News release, Mar 25, 2026
Who works here
employees worldwide (Dec 31, 2025)
group employees in Japan (2022)
women in management at Kirin Holdings (2025 target met)
women-in-management goal for 2030
Source: Company overview · News releases Jun 13, 2022 and Mar 25, 2026
Head-office history: from the Yamate hills to Nakano
- 1885 Yamate, Yokohama — a brewery founded by foreign residents
In July 1885 a group of foreign residents in Yokohama set up the Japan Brewery Company on the site of the former Spring Valley Brewery, bringing in German brewers and equipment. Its lager went on sale as “Kirin Beer” in 1888. Kirin Brewery was incorporated on February 23, 1907 to take over the business, with its registered head office in Yamate-cho, Yokohama.
Source: Kirin History Museum, “Founding of Japan Brewery” · Kirin Group history 1885–1949 · Company overview
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1925 Koyasu, Kanagawa-ku — after the earthquake
The Yamate brewery collapsed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of September 1923. In September 1925 Kirin moved its registered head office to Koyasu-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama.
Source: Kirin Group history 1885–1949
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1928 Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku — the new Yokohama brewery
The new Yokohama Brewery (today's Kirin Brewery Yokohama Plant) was completed in June 1926, and in April 1928 the registered head office moved to Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku. Kirin's beverage and packaging research institutes are still at 1-17-1 Namamugi.
Source: Kirin Group history 1885–1949 · Company overview
Kirin Beer Yokohama Plant, Namamugi, 2009 · Kamemaru2000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1965 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku — the head office goes to Tokyo
In March 1965 Kirin moved its registered head office from Namamugi to Kyobashi in Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
Source: Kirin Group history 1950–1989
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1977 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku
In January 1977 the registered head office moved from Kyobashi to Jingumae in Shibuya-ku.
Source: Kirin Group history 1950–1989
Former head office, Jingumae, Shibuya-ku · Rs1421 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1995 Shinkawa, Chuo-ku
In April 1995 the registered head office moved from Jingumae to Shinkawa in Chuo-ku. In July 2007 Kirin Brewery became the holding company Kirin Holdings.
Source: Kirin Group history 1990–1999 and 2000–2009
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2013 Nakano Central Park South — the group under one roof
From March to June 2013 Kirin Holdings, Kirin Brewery, Kirin Beverage, Mercian and other group companies moved from offices scattered around Tokyo into floors 17–21 of the new 21-storey Nakano Central Park South, to work more closely together, cut costs and keep running in a disaster. The registered head office followed in May 2013.
Source: News release, Feb 10, 2012 · Kirin Group history 2010–2019
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2022 Six floors become four
A full renewal under the concept “a STADIUM where passion connects” cut total space by about 20% while doubling desk space per person, made desks free-address, cut storage by about 60% on a near-paperless basis and added sit-stand desks. It opened on June 13, 2022.
Source: News release, Jun 13, 2022 · Okamura project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 A café, a playground and a nap spot
A second renewal in January 2026 added a café serving group products (with alcohol about once a week after hours), WELLNESS SELECT, the PLAYGROUND, a RECHARGE SPOT, a SHARE SHELF and themed BAR, CAMP and YATAI spaces, with sensors showing how busy each area is.
Source: News release, Jan 7, 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From the Yamate hills of Yokohama, along the bay to Namamugi, then to central Tokyo in 1965 and finally west to Nakano in 2013 — about 35 km in all.
- 1 · 1885Yamate, Naka-ku, Yokohama — Japan Brewery Company; Kirin's registered head office until 1925
- 2 · 1925Koyasu, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama — Registered head office after the 1923 earthquake
- 3 · 1928Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama — Head office at the new Yokohama brewery
- 4 · 1965Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo — First Tokyo head office
- 5 · 1977Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo — Head office in Jingumae
- 6 · 1995Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo — Head office in Shinkawa
- 7 · 2013Nakano Central Park South, Tokyo — Today's group head office at 4-10-2 Nakano
Addresses: Kirin Group history (registered head office changes) · News release Feb 10, 2012 · Company overview · Locations: OpenStreetMap (district-level for older addresses)
What Kirin Holdings does
Kirin began as a Yokohama brewery and still sells Kirin beer, but today it is a group spanning drinks, health science and pharmaceuticals, built on fermentation and biotechnology.
Four reporting segments: Alcoholic Beverages, Non-alcoholic Beverages, Pharmaceuticals and Health Science (plus Others).
Where the money came from · Revenue by segment · FY2025 (year to Dec 31, 2025)
Source: Kirin Holdings, “Management Analysis of Financial Position, Operating Results, and Cash Flows” (FY2025) · careers site “Company”
Source: Kirin Holdings, Management Analysis of Operating Results (FY2025)
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥2.34T → ¥2.43T
Fiscal years end December 31 (IFRS). Revenue: Kirin Holdings, Management Analysis of Operating Results (FY2025). Employees: company overview (Dec 31, 2025). Earlier years are published only in PDF reports and are not shown. Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Representative Director of the Board & CEO since March 2024; President & CEO from March 2015. Joined Kirin in 1977.
Representative Director of the Board, President & COO since March 2024. Joined Kirin in 1984; earlier ran Kyowa Hakko Bio and the Health Science division.
Kirin traces its roots to the Japan Brewery Company, founded in Yokohama in 1885 by foreign residents including Edgar Abbott, William Henry Talbot and first chairman James Dodds; Thomas Blake Glover later served as a director.
Source: Kirin Holdings “Our leadership” (as of March 2026) · Kirin History Museum
Kirin Holdings: questions people ask
Where is Kirin's headquarters?
At Nakano Central Park South, 4-10-2 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001. Kirin Holdings, Kirin Brewery, Kirin Beverage, Mercian and other group companies moved there in 2013.
Source: Company overview · News release Feb 10, 2012
Who designed Kirin's head office interior?
The 2022 renewal was designed by Taira Ito and Akiko Shinagawa of Okamura's space design team, and fitted out by Kajima, Okamura and Nomura Co.
Source: Okamura project page
How big is Kirin's head office?
About 20,000 m² (≈ 215,278 sq ft) on four floors, 18F to 21F, designed for 3,350 people. The 2022 renewal cut total space by about 20% but doubled the desk space per person.
Source: Okamura project page · News release Jun 13, 2022
What is inside Kirin's office?
A guest lounge and Kirin Studio on 18F, a meeting “Lab” on 19F, a café lounge on 20F and a library on 21F, linked by a central staircase. Since January 2026 there is also a café with group drinks, a PLAYGROUND with ping-pong and exercise bikes, a RECHARGE SPOT for naps and stretching, and a SHARE SHELF of staff book picks.
Source: Kirin careers site “Office” · News release Jan 7, 2026
Does Kirin allow remote or flexible work?
Yes. Kirin has flextime and work-from-home systems with a home-working allowance, and the head office is sized so that up to 50% of its staff can be in at the same time.
Source: Kirin careers site · News release Jun 13, 2022
What benefits does Kirin offer in Japan?
At Kirin Holdings: 123 days off a year, a long Step-up Holiday at ages 30, 40 and 50, a leave bank for unused paid leave, company housing or rent subsidy, and from April 2026 two weeks of paid childcare leave plus up to ¥500,000 for a month or more of leave.
Source: Kirin careers site · News release Mar 25, 2026
How many people work at Kirin?
31,144 employees on a consolidated basis as of December 31, 2025.
Source: Company overview
What did Kirin's first office look like?
Kirin's roots are the Japan Brewery Company, founded in 1885 on the former Spring Valley Brewery site in Yokohama. Kirin Brewery's registered head office stayed in Yamate-cho until 1925, after the brewery collapsed in the 1923 earthquake.
Source: Kirin History Museum · Kirin Group history 1885–1949
Who runs Kirin?
Yoshinori Isozaki is Representative Director of the Board & CEO, and Takeshi Minakata is Representative Director of the Board, President & COO, both since March 2024.
Source: Kirin Holdings “Our leadership”
Can you visit Kirin's head office?
Kirin publishes a barrier-free route guide to the head office for visitors, but it does not describe public tours of the office floors.
Source: Company overview
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