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Mitsubishi Corporation Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Mitsubishi Corporation · Tokyo, Japan
A head office next to the Imperial Palace, renovated for free-address working, certified WELL Platinum — with its own medical clinic of about 50 professionals.
Two buildings in Marunouchi, the perks and 136 years on the same few blocks of Tokyo — then the business. Every number from Mitsubishi Corporation's own website, ESG data, financial data and its architects' project pages.
- WELL Platinumfor the Mitsubishi Shoji Building, March 2025
- ≈ 50doctors, nurses and other staff in the in-house clinic
- 17.6 yearsaverage time at the company (FY2025)
- 0.75%left for personal reasons in FY2025
Sources: mitsubishicorp.com (Company Profile, Know MC's Office, Well-being initiatives, ESG Data 2026) · Announcement, Mar 24, 2025
Companies / Japan / Trading & Investment / Mitsubishi Corporation
THE HEAD OFFICE · MARUNOUCHI · RENOVATED FROM FALL 2023
Free-address floors, a lounge facing the Imperial Palace
Mitsubishi Corporation's head office was completely renovated from the fall of 2023. Employees choose where to sit each day, and the floors now mix many kinds of meeting space to encourage open discussion. Lounge 5, the shared lounge, is meant for people from different departments and floors to meet, with an unobstructed view of the Imperial Palace. The renovation used biophilic design with plants, natural sounds and scents, ergonomic furniture, a grid planning system for quick layout changes and a concierge service for office requests.
- Free address (hot-desking)
- WELL v2 Platinum (March 2025)
- Lounge 5 overlooking the Imperial Palace
- Employee cafeteria between the two buildings
- A “Wellness Hub” with plants, nature sounds and aroma
- 231 PLACE café and gallery open to the public (2026)
Free-address workspaces (renovated 2023–2025)
Employees choose where to sit each day; the renovation used plants, natural sounds and scents, and a grid system for quick layout changes.
Lounge 5, facing the Imperial Palace
Lounge 5 is meant for people from different departments to meet, with an unobstructed view of the Imperial Palace.
The employees' cafeteria
The cafeteria sits between the two head-office buildings.
Conference and reception rooms
Large boardroom-style rooms and a flexible event room.
The two head-office buildings
The head office spans the Mitsubishi Shoji Building (2-3-1 Marunouchi, completed 2006) and the Marunouchi Park Building (2-6-1).
Facts: mitsubishicorp.com “Know MC's [Office]” · Announcement on WELL Platinum certification, Mar 24, 2025 · Announcement on 231 PLACE, Feb 16, 2026
Two buildings on Marunouchi Naka-dori
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Mitsubishi Shoji Building (registered head office) | 3-1, Marunouchi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8086, Japan |
| Marunouchi Park Building (part of the head office) | 6-1, Marunouchi 2-Chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8086, Japan |
| 231 PLACE (café, flower shop and gallery, floors 1–2 of the Mitsubishi Shoji Building) | 2-3-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8086, Japan |
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Company Profile and Head Office access page · Announcement, Feb 16, 2026 · See them on the map ↓
Source: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei project page “Mitsubishi Shoji Building” · Takenaka Corporation major works (Mitsubishi Shoji Building; Marunouchi Park Building & Mitsubishi Ichigokan) · MC announcement, Mar 24, 2025. Takenaka lists the Shoji Building's floor area as 60,927 m².
Office tour videos
Benefits (Mitsubishi Corporation, Japan)
A medical clinic at the head office with internal medicine, dermatology, neurology and gynecology; more than 17,000 visits in both FY2023 and FY2024.
10 paid days per fiscal year, plus up to 1 year of family care leave for each family member needing care.
A Childcare Concierge in HR, places at a nearby daycare, sick-child babysitters and “MC Gakudo” day camps during school holidays.
Time off for a sick child, checkups and vaccinations, or school and daycare ceremonies; 496 employees used it in FY2025.
Average length of childcare leave taken by male employees in FY2025; 93.2% of new fathers used childcare-related systems.
Single dormitories for career-track staff, all in Tokyo and within 40 minutes of the office, plus company housing.
Share of annual paid leave employees actually took in FY2025; the company-wide goal is 70%.
Refresh leave, volunteer leave, spouse childbirth leave and “Life Support” leave that can be saved up for illness, health, pregnancy or care.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Diversity Management and Well-being initiatives (2026) · ESG Data 2026 (FY2025) · career-mc.com job requirements (2026)
Why people stay: what Mitsubishi Corporation itself says
Average years of service for non-consolidated employees, March 31, 2026; the average age is 42.3.
Share of employees who retired for personal reasons in FY2025.
Young employees are sent abroad for business school, language and culture study or on-the-job training; 1,002 employees were on overseas assignments in March 2026.
Average positive answers on the engagement questions of the yearly employee survey, FY2025.
People who left to follow a spouse transferred in Japan or abroad can return to MC; 11 applied in FY2025.
A re-employment course for employees aged 60 and over, and a Career Design Center for senior staff.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com ESG Data 2026 (Human Resource Management) · Diversity Management initiatives
Who works here
employees in the whole group (March 2026)
average age of employees
of managers are women (April 2026)
employees on overseas assignments
Source: mitsubishicorp.com ESG Data 2026 (as of March 31, 2026; managers as of April 1, 2026) · Company Profile
Office history: 136 years in Marunouchi
- 1890 Mitsubishi buys Marunouchi
In March 1890 Yanosuke Iwasaki, Mitsubishi's second president, bought about 110,000 tsubo (nearly 90 acres) of land next to the Imperial Palace and set out to build Japan's first modern business district.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, Our Roots vol.14
Marunouchi's red-brick street, c. 1900s · © Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd. - 1894 Mitsubishi Ichigokan, the first office building
Mitsubishi's first office building in Marunouchi, a red-brick building designed by the British architect Josiah Conder, was completed in 1894.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, “Exploring Marunouchi” (Oct 1, 2026)
Mitsubishi Ichigokan, published 1896 · Sone Tatsuzō and Josiah Conder / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1947–1950 Break-up, and a company to carry on
In 1947 the occupation authorities ordered Japan's family conglomerates to disband, and the old Mitsubishi Shoji was split into more than 100 companies. One of them, Kowa Jitsugyo — registered on April 1, 1950 — was allowed to take over the old company's assets and business.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, Our Roots (Since 1954) vol.1 · Company Profile
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1954 The new Mitsubishi Shoji opens in Marunouchi
After a four-company merger, the new Mitsubishi Shoji was launched on July 1, 1954, with Katsujiro Takagaki as its first president, and set up its head office in the Marunouchi district.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, Our Roots (Since 1954) vol.1 and vol.2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1958 Its own building
The head office moved into a new “Mitsubishi Shoji Building”, built by Mitsubishi Estate on the same site as today's Mitsubishi Shoji Building.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, Our Roots (Since 1954) vol.2
Marunouchi around 1960 · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 2006 Today's Mitsubishi Shoji Building
The current 21-storey Mitsubishi Shoji Building, designed by Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei, was completed in March 2006. The company owns it, and it is the registered head office at 2-3-1 Marunouchi.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, “Exploring Marunouchi” · Announcement, Mar 24, 2025 · Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2009 Marunouchi Park Building and the Ichigokan return
The 34-storey Marunouchi Park Building and a faithful reconstruction of the Mitsubishi Ichigokan were completed in 2009. Mitsubishi Corporation says the Ichigokan stands on the site of the old Mitsubishi Shoji Building, replaced in the Marunouchi redevelopment. Part of the head office works in the Park Building today.
Source: Takenaka Corporation major works · mitsubishicorp.com, “Exploring Marunouchi” and Company Profile
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023–2025 A full renovation for free-address work
From the fall of 2023 the office floors were completely renovated with free-address seating and many meeting spaces; work on all floors was finished in March 2025, when the Mitsubishi Shoji Building received WELL v2 Platinum.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, Know MC's Office · Announcement, Mar 24, 2025
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 231 PLACE opens to the public
On March 6, 2026 the company opened 231 PLACE on the first two floors of its head office building — a roastery café, a flower shop and a public gallery named after the address, 2-3-1 Marunouchi.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com, Announcement, Feb 16, 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
Mitsubishi Corporation has never left Marunouchi. Every address in its history fits inside a few hundred metres of Naka-dori, between Tokyo Station and the Imperial Palace.
- 1 · 1894Mitsubishi Ichigokan — Mitsubishi's first office building in Marunouchi (reconstructed 2009), 2-6-2 Marunouchi
- 2 · 1958Mitsubishi Shoji Building (1958) — Built by Mitsubishi Estate on the site of today's building
- 3 · 2009Marunouchi Park Building — Part of the head office today, 2-6-1 Marunouchi
- 4 · TodayMitsubishi Shoji Building — Registered head office since 2006, 2-3-1 Marunouchi
Addresses: mitsubishicorp.com Company Profile, “Exploring Marunouchi”, Our Roots vol.2 · Locations: eciffo from the street addresses
What Mitsubishi Corporation does
Mitsubishi Corporation calls itself an integrated trading and investment company: it develops and operates businesses across many industries — from metals and mineral resources to food, cars, power and city development — together with its global network.
Seven Business Groups (as of August 1, 2026): Materials Solution, Mineral Resources, Urban Development & Infrastructure, Energy & Power Solution, Mobility, Food Industry and Smart-Life Creation.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Financial Data (Financial Highlights, FY2025) · Company Profile
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥16.10T → ¥18.92T
80,728 → 63,037
Fiscal years end March 31 (FY2025 ended March 31, 2026). Revenues: mitsubishicorp.com Financial Highlights (IFRS). Series starts in FY2018 because IFRS 15 sharply raised reported revenues from that year. Employees: ESG Data 2026, consolidated, as of March 31. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President and CEO since April 2022. Joined in 1985 and rose through the power business, last as Group CEO of the Power Solution Group.
President and CEO from April 2016; Chairman of the Board since April 2022. Joined in 1979 and came from the food business.
The new Mitsubishi Shoji was formed by a four-company merger on July 1, 1954; its first president was Katsujiro Takagaki. The Mitsubishi group traces back to founder Yataro Iwasaki.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Directors & Officers (as of June 19, 2026) · Our Roots
Mitsubishi Corporation: questions people ask
Where is Mitsubishi Corporation's headquarters?
In Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The head office is spread over two buildings: the Mitsubishi Shoji Building at 2-3-1 Marunouchi (the registered office) and the Marunouchi Park Building at 2-6-1 Marunouchi. The Shoji Building is a 3-minute walk from Tokyo Station and 1 minute from Nijubashi-mae Station.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Company Profile · Head Office access page
Who designed Mitsubishi Corporation's head office building?
The Mitsubishi Shoji Building was designed and supervised by Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei and built by a Takenaka Corporation joint venture. It was completed in March 2006.
Source: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei project page · Takenaka Corporation major works
How big is the Mitsubishi Shoji Building?
21 floors above ground and 3 below, with a total floor area of 60,921 m² (about 655,700 sq ft) on a 5,307 m² site.
Source: Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei project page
What is the office like inside?
Since a full renovation from the fall of 2023, employees use free-address seating and many kinds of meeting space. There is a shared lounge (Lounge 5) with a view of the Imperial Palace, a wellness space with plants and nature sounds, and an employee cafeteria in the Marunouchi Nakadori Building between the two head office buildings. The Mitsubishi Shoji Building was certified WELL v2 Platinum in March 2025.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Know MC's Office · Announcement, Mar 24, 2025
Can you visit Mitsubishi Corporation's headquarters?
The offices are for employees and invited guests, who go to the reception of the building they are visiting. But anyone can visit 231 PLACE on the first two floors of the Mitsubishi Shoji Building — a café, a flower shop and a public gallery, open 7:00–19:00 on weekdays and 11:00–19:00 on weekends and holidays.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Head Office access page · Announcement, Feb 16, 2026
What benefits does Mitsubishi Corporation offer?
In Japan: an in-house medical clinic with about 50 professionals, 10 days of paid family care leave a year, a childcare concierge with daycare places and sick-child babysitters, paid child care and school events leave, single dormitories in Tokyo, and refresh and volunteer leave.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Diversity Management and Well-being initiatives · career-mc.com job requirements
Does Mitsubishi Corporation allow remote work or flexible hours?
Yes. The company says it has a flextime system and remote work options such as telecommuting and satellite offices company-wide. Standard working hours are 9:15–17:30, with flextime in some departments.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Labor Practices initiatives · career-mc.com job requirements
How many people work at Mitsubishi Corporation?
63,037 in the whole group on March 31, 2026. The parent company had 4,456 employees by its profile count, or 5,328 in its ESG data, which counts differently; 4,373 of them work in Japan.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Company Profile · ESG Data 2026
How much do Mitsubishi Corporation employees earn?
The average salary at the parent company was ¥21,125,472 in fiscal 2025, according to its ESG data. Career-track hires start from a monthly salary of ¥350,000, with bonuses twice a year.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com ESG Data 2026 · career-mc.com job requirements
Who is Mitsubishi Corporation's CEO?
Katsuya Nakanishi, President and CEO since April 2022. His predecessor, Takehiko Kakiuchi, is Chairman of the Board.
Source: mitsubishicorp.com Directors & Officers
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