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Okamura Headquarters & offices · Yokohama, Japan
Okamura · Yokohama, Japan
An office-furniture maker that runs its own head office as a lab: three floors in Tokyo where about 490 people test new ways of working, open to visitors by reservation.
Okamura's registered head office is in Yokohama's Tenri Building, but its executives, corporate staff and designers work in We Labo, three floors of the New Otani Garden Court in Tokyo designed by Okamura's own team. Then the benefits: hybrid work, super-flex hours and a 20% bonus on employee shares.
- 4,445 m²We Labo, 3 floors (≈ 47,800 sq ft)
- 3 daysminimum in the office each week
- 6,082group employees (Mar 31, 2026)
- ≈ 490people based in We Labo (2022)
Sources: Okamura news releases (2021, 2022) · okamura.design · okamura.co.jp company outline · saiyo.okamura.co.jp (2025–2026)
Companies / Japan / Office furniture & workplace design / Okamura
THE HEADQUARTERS OFFICE · TOKYO
We Labo: a head office that doubles as a lab
Okamura calls We Labo its head office. Opened in August 2022 on floors 24–26 of the New Otani Garden Court in Kioicho, it brings together the executives, corporate departments, product and space designers and sales. Each floor has its own idea: 26F “EYES” around the executive area, a boardroom and an open Hub Lounge; 25F “EARS” with activity-based workspaces wrapped in plants; and 24F “HANDS”, a workshop-like floor for thinking alone and making things together. Anyone can choose where to work across the three floors. In 2025 the 25th floor was rebuilt as a street under trees and deep eaves, where people from every department mix.
- 4,445 m² on 3 floors
- ≈ 490 people
- Activity-based working
- Designed in-house by Okamura
- Visits by reservation
- 25F renewed 2025
The building and the 2022 floors
We Labo opened in August 2022 on floors 24–26 of the New Otani Garden Court in Kioicho, bringing together executives, corporate departments, designers and sales.
25F: workspaces under green (renewed 2025)
In 2025 the 25th floor was rebuilt as 750 m² with 80 seats, a street under trees and deep eaves where people from every department mix.
24F HANDS: the workshop floor
The 24th floor, “HANDS”, is a workshop-like floor for thinking alone and making things together.
Source: Okamura news releases “HEADQUARTERS OFFICE” (Apr 6, 2021) and “We Labo” (2022) · okamura.design project pages “We Labo” and “We Labo 25F” · okamura.co.jp Labo Office page
Yokohama and Tokyo
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Registered head office | Tenri Building 19F, 1-4-1 Kitasaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-0004, Japan |
| We Labo (head office, executives and corporate staff) | New Otani Garden Court 24F–26F, 4-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
Source: okamura.co.jp company outline · Okamura news release “We Labo” (2022) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Okamura news releases (2021, 2022) · okamura.design “We Labo” and “We Labo 25F” · okamura.co.jp Labo Office page · sq ft converted by eciffo
Benefits (Japan)
Office and telework combined, with at least three office days a week; shared and satellite offices available.
“Super flex”: staff set their own hours, with at least one hour worked a day (at sites with flextime).
Unused paid leave that would expire can be banked for illness, up to 20 days, plus a phased return to work.
Up to one year in total (the legal minimum is three months), plus shorter hours or home working.
Three paid days within a month of a partner giving birth; mandatory for fathers since January 2020.
The company adds 20% to each month's purchase in the group employee shareholding association.
Defined-contribution pension as part of retirement pay, with optional employee matching contributions.
New hires who can't commute from home can rent a furnished studio in the single dormitory for ¥10,000 a month.
Source: saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “Training / Welfare” (2026)
How Okamura keeps people, in its own words
Share of new graduates who left within three years of joining.
Average paid leave taken per employee a year.
Return rate after childcare leave; 69.2% of eligible men took childcare leave.
Internal job postings for new businesses and teams; staff apply, interview and transfer.
A DX learning platform where staff bring real work problems and learn to solve them with digital tools.
Founded as a “cooperative industry” where everyone pooled money, skills and work; employees are described as equals.
Source: saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “Okamura in numbers” (as of March 2025), “Training / Welfare” and “History”
Who works here
group employees (Mar 31, 2026)
employees of Okamura Corporation (Mar 31, 2026)
average age (Mar 2025)
patents (Mar 2025)
national skill-test passes, cumulative (Mar 2025)
Source: okamura.co.jp company outline · saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “Okamura in numbers” (as of March 2025)
Office history: from Okamura-cho to Kioicho
- 1945 Founded in Okamura-cho, Yokohama
On October 10, 1945, aircraft engineers who had lost their jobs after the war pooled money, skills and labour to start Okamura Seisakusho, a “cooperative industry”, in Okamura-cho, Isogo-ku, Yokohama. They first made pots and pans, then steel furniture.
Source: okamura.co.jp, “Okamura's history” · saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “History”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1957 A Tokyo sales office in Akasaka
Okamura opened a Tokyo sales office and showroom in Akasaka and launched steel office desks and chairs.
Source: okamura.co.jp, “Okamura's history”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1973 Head office moves to the Yokohama Tenri Building
The head office moved to the Yokohama Tenri Building; the company's registered head office is still there today, on the 19th floor.
Source: okamura.co.jp, “Okamura's history” and company outline
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1974 Showroom at the New Otani
Okamura opened its New Otani showroom in Tokyo.
Source: okamura.co.jp, “Okamura's history”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2021 “HEADQUARTERS OFFICE” in Kioicho
From January 2021 Okamura gathered its main Tokyo-area functions, executives and corporate departments in a new Headquarters Office on floors 24–26 of the New Otani Garden Court: 4,495 m² for about 480 people, working by activity-based working.
Source: Okamura news release, April 6, 2021
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2022 Reopened as We Labo
In August 2022 the same three floors began working as “We Labo”, a lab office for about 490 people built around the idea of working as “we”. Visits by reservation started on December 12, 2022.
Source: Okamura news release, “We Labo” (2022)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2025 25th floor rebuilt
Okamura renewed the 25th floor of its head office, We Labo, as 750 m² with 80 seats, designed so that people from every department mix and meet.
Source: okamura.design, “We Labo 25F”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a workshop in Okamura-cho on Yokohama's southern side to the Tenri Building by Yokohama Station in 1973, and since 2021 to the New Otani Garden Court in central Tokyo.
- 1 · 1945Okamura-cho, Isogo-ku, Yokohama — Founded as Okamura Seisakusho
- 2 · 1973Yokohama Tenri Building — Head office; still the registered head office (19F)
- 3 · 2021New Otani Garden Court, Kioicho, Tokyo — Headquarters Office, then We Labo (2022)
Addresses: okamura.co.jp history and company outline · Okamura news releases (2021, 2022) · coordinates by eciffo
What Okamura does
Okamura makes and installs office furniture and workplaces, store fixtures and refrigerated showcases, warehouse and logistics systems, and torque converters for forklifts. Offices are the biggest business.
Office Environment, Commercial Environment, Material Handling Systems, and Other.
Where the money came from · net sales by segment, FY ended March 2026
Source: ir.okamura.co.jp, “For individual investors”, segment highlights FY ended March 2026
Source: ir.okamura.co.jp, Financial highlights and Financial position · growth and margin calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥277.0B → ¥329.0B
Fiscal years ended March. Net sales: ir.okamura.co.jp, Financial highlights. Employees: okamura.co.jp company outline (consolidated, March 31, 2026; earlier years not published on the same basis online). Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Representative Director, President and CEO.
Founded in October 1945 by a group of engineers who pooled their money, skills and labour as a “cooperative industry”.
Source: okamura.co.jp, Officers · saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “History”
Okamura: questions people ask
Where is Okamura's headquarters?
The registered head office is on the 19th floor of the Tenri Building, 1-4-1 Kitasaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama. Executives and corporate departments work in We Labo, floors 24–26 of the New Otani Garden Court, 4-1 Kioicho, Tokyo, which Okamura calls its head office.
Source: okamura.co.jp company outline · okamura.design
Who designed Okamura's head office, We Labo?
Okamura's own space designers (Ayano Sakai, Akiko Nomura, Akane Fujita and Naoto Yoshida); built by Okamura and Sankyo Interior, with brand design by Nippon Design Center.
Source: okamura.design, “We Labo”
How big is We Labo?
4,445 m² (about 47,800 sq ft) over three floors, for about 490 people.
Source: Okamura news release, “We Labo” (2022)
Can you visit Okamura's office?
Yes. We Labo and Okamura's other lab offices can be toured by companies with a reservation; tours of We Labo began on December 12, 2022.
Source: okamura.co.jp, Labo Office page · news release (2022)
What is Okamura's hybrid work policy?
Okamura combines office work and telework, with at least three office days a week, and encourages contracted shared offices and booked satellite offices.
Source: saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “Training / Welfare”
What benefits does Okamura offer?
Among others: super-flex hours, up to 20 days of banked sick leave, up to one year of family-care leave, three paid days of partner's birth leave, a 20% company bonus on employee share purchases, and a defined-contribution pension with matching.
Source: saiyo.okamura.co.jp, “Training / Welfare”
How many people work at Okamura?
6,082 in the group and 4,494 at Okamura Corporation on March 31, 2026.
Source: okamura.co.jp company outline
When and where was Okamura founded?
October 10, 1945, in Okamura-cho, Isogo-ku, Yokohama, as Okamura Seisakusho. It took the name Okamura Corporation in 2018.
Source: okamura.co.jp, “Okamura's history”
What does Okamura make?
Office furniture and workplaces, store fixtures and refrigerated showcases, logistics systems and torque converters. Office Environment was ¥191.8B of ¥329.0B net sales in the year to March 2026.
Source: ir.okamura.co.jp
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