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Olympus Headquarters & offices · Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
Olympus · Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
In 2024 Olympus left its head office in a Shinjuku skyscraper for its own R&D campus in Hachioji, where 6,500 people now share offices and labs built without walls.
The Global Headquarters, the benefits in Japan and every head-office move since a microscope workshop in Hatagaya in 1919 — then the business. Every number from Olympus's own websites, careers site and releases, plus the designers' and builders' project pages.
- 78,524 m²office floor area at the Global HQ (≈ 845,000 sq ft)
- 6,500people working at the Global HQ
- 129 daysoff a year (Olympus Corporation, Japan)
- FreeOlympus Museum inside the HQ, by reservation
Sources: NOPA award page “Olympus Global Headquarters Office” (2026) · Olympus careers site, Benefits · Olympus Museum visitor page
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THE GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS · ISHIKAWA, HACHIOJI · 2024
A development campus turned into one open head office
Head-office staff used to sit in Shinjuku and the business teams in Hachioji. In April 2024 Olympus brought everything together at its Ishikawa development site and renovated it around one idea, “Open!”: offices and labs without walls, free seating, event spaces, and screens that show which seats and meeting rooms are free. Employees choose where to work by activity (ABW), between the campus, home and shared offices.
- 78,524 m² of office space
- 6,500 people on site
- Open labs without walls
- Interior planning and design: Planus
- Nikkei New Office Award 2026
- Olympus Museum on site
The Global Headquarters office (2024): open labs and activity-based workspaces
Head-office staff used to sit in Shinjuku and the business teams in Hachioji; in April 2024 Olympus brought everything together at its Ishikawa development site, with offices and labs without walls and free seating.
Building 1, renovated by Planus (2023)
Planus planned and designed the interiors of Building 1, an 18,900 m² renovation completed in April 2023.
Building 6 by Shimizu Corporation (2016)
Shimizu Corporation planned, designed and built Building 6, 14,830 m² on 11 floors, completed in July 2016.
Facts: Olympus release on the head-office move (Oct 26, 2023) · Olympus release on the Nikkei New Office Award (Sep 7, 2026) · NOPA award page · olympus.co.jp “Olympus's open way of working”.
The Ishikawa campus in Hachioji
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Global Headquarters (Ishikawa site) | 2951 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-8507 |
| Olympus Museum (inside the Global HQ) | 2951 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-8507 |
| Shinjuku Satellite Office (the former head office) | Shinjuku Monolith, 2-3-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0904 |
Source: Olympus company profile · Olympus Museum and Shinjuku Satellite Office access pages · See them on the map ↓
Source: NOPA award page (39th Nikkei New Office Award) · Planus project page “Olympus Global Headquarters, Building 1” · Shimizu Corporation project page “Olympus Ishikawa new building (Building 6)” · Olympus release, July 25, 2007
Benefits (Japan, Olympus Corporation)
Two-day weekends and public holidays, plus Golden Week, summer and New Year breaks.
From the first year. Unused days can be banked — up to 50 — as paid leave for your own illness or caring for family.
Each employee picks a time to take five paid days off in a row.
Flextime with no core hours: start and finish any time between 5:00 and 22:00.
No company-wide cap on work-from-home days, a home-working allowance, and shared offices Olympus pays for.
Olympus Kids Garden, an in-house nursery at the Global Headquarters; childcare leave until a child turns 2.
Per child, for non-managers, until the child turns 18.
Almost all cancer screenings free with the yearly check-up from age 35, plus a points-based cafeteria plan.
Source: Olympus careers site — “Benefits” and new-graduate recruiting guidelines 2027 · “Inclusion in Japan” (Olympus Kids Garden). Full-time employees in Japan.
Why people stay: what Olympus itself says
Men at Olympus Corporation have been with the company 15.5 years on average, women 12.8 years (March 2026).
In FY2026 the rate of men taking childcare leave passed the 100% target; the average leave was 66.8 days.
Employees can apply to open positions inside the company at any time of year.
In-house counsellors holding Japan's national career-consultant licence, plus regular career talks with your manager.
After 7 years: 5 days off and a ¥55,000 bonus; at 43 or 48, under set conditions, 10 days off and ¥330,000.
Certified as a “White 500” company for health and productivity management in 2022, 2024 and 2025; “Platinum Kurumin” for childcare support since 2022.
Source: Olympus careers site (Benefits; Career and skill-up support) · “Inclusion in Japan” data table (Olympus Corporation) · Olympus chronology
Who works here
consolidated employees (March 31, 2026)
countries and regions with Olympus sites
of officers have a foreign nationality (March 2026)
of mid-career hires in Japan were women (FY2026)
patents held by the group
Source: Olympus company profile and “Facts & Figures” (March 2026) · “Inclusion in Japan” data table (Olympus Corporation). Men's share calculated by eciffo from the 24.1% women figure.
Office history: from a microscope workshop in Hatagaya to one campus in Hachioji
- 1919 Founded in Hatagaya, Shibuya
Takeshi Yamashita founded the company as Takachiho Seisakusho on October 12, 1919 in the Hatagaya district of Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, to make microscopes in Japan. Its first microscope, the Asahi, followed in 1920. In 1926 a shrine was built in the head-office grounds for the seventh anniversary.
Source: Olympus, “Founding of Olympus” and chronology 1919–1945
Hatagaya, Shibuya, 2009 · Kamemaru2000 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1943–44 War moves production to Nagano
Factories opened in Suwa (1943) and Ina (1944), Nagano; materials and tools for microscopes and cameras were moved there from central Tokyo during the war.
Source: Olympus chronology 1919–1945 and 1946–1959
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1949 Back to Hatagaya, as Olympus
After the war the company built a new plant and head office in Hatagaya, where its original head office had been, and in January 1949 renamed itself Olympus Optical.
Source: Olympus chronology 1946–1959
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1963 A site in Ishikawa, Hachioji
A plant opened in Ishikawa, Hachioji in August 1963. It became the Ishikawa technology development centre for imaging, medical, life-science and industrial products.
Source: Olympus chronology 1960–1969 · Olympus release, July 25, 2007
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2007 Rebuilding the Ishikawa campus
Olympus announced new development and technology buildings at Ishikawa — 94,400 m² in all, for about ¥20 billion. Shimizu Corporation finished the last building of the plan, Building 6, in July 2016.
Source: Olympus release, July 25, 2007 · Shimizu Corporation project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2009 Head office in the Shinjuku Monolith
By 2009 the head office was in the Shinjuku Monolith skyscraper in west Shinjuku, while development and business teams worked in Hachioji. Olympus later said this split was one cause of silos between departments.
Source: Olympus CSR Report 2010 · Olympus release, Oct 26, 2023 · olympus.co.jp “Olympus's open way of working”
Shinjuku Monolith, Nishi-Shinjuku · Aimaimyi / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2024 The Global Headquarters in Hachioji
On April 1, 2024 the head office moved from the Shinjuku Monolith to the Ishikawa site, which became the “Global Headquarters” for head-office functions and all businesses, including marketing and development. The Monolith floor is now the Shinjuku Satellite Office.
Source: Olympus release, Oct 26, 2023 · Shinjuku Satellite Office access page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 An award for the open office
The Global Headquarters won a New Office Promotion Prize at the 39th Nikkei New Office Award, one of 16 chosen from 124 entries.
Source: Olympus release, Sep 7, 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From Hatagaya in Shibuya to a Shinjuku skyscraper about 3 km east, then 35 km west to the Hachioji campus where Olympus has worked since 1963.
- 1 · 1919Hatagaya, Shibuya — The founding head office, rebuilt there after the war
- 2 · 1963Ishikawa site, Hachioji — A plant that grew into the development campus
- 3 · 2009Shinjuku Monolith, Nishi-Shinjuku — Head office until March 2024, now a satellite office
- 4 · 2024Global Headquarters, Hachioji — Today's head office at 2951 Ishikawa-machi
Addresses: Olympus chronology, company profile, Shinjuku Satellite Office access page · Hatagaya point is the district, not an exact address · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Olympus does
Olympus began in 1919 making microscopes and in 1950 developed the world's first practical gastrocamera. Today it calls itself a global medical technology company: endoscopes for the stomach and colon, plus devices for surgery, urology and the lungs. Its microscope business (Scientific Solutions) has been separated and is no longer reported.
Two divisions since April 2025: Gastrointestinal Solutions (GIS) ¥697.4B, 69% · Surgical & Interventional Solutions (SIS) ¥313.1B, 31%.
Where the money came from · Revenue by region · year ended March 2026
Source: Olympus company profile (olympus-global.com), revenue by division and region, fiscal year ended March 31, 2026
Source: Olympus IR annual data (FY2023–FY2026) · company profile · growth and per-employee figures calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥0.87T → ¥1.01T
Fiscal years end March 31 (Olympus calls the year ended March 2026 “FY2026”). Revenue (IFRS, continuing operations; Scientific Solutions and Orthopedics restated as discontinued): Olympus company profile and IR annual data. Employees: company profile (Mar 31, 2026). Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Director, Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO since June 2025; previously Executive Vice President at Medtronic.
Appointed President in April 2019.
Appointed President in April 2012.
Founded on October 12, 1919 by Takeshi Yamashita as Takachiho Seisakusho, with chief engineer Shintaro Terada.
Source: Olympus top management page and Bob White profile · Olympus chronology · “Founding of Olympus”
Olympus: questions people ask
Where is Olympus's headquarters?
At 2951 Ishikawa-machi, Hachioji, in western Tokyo — the Global Headquarters on Olympus's Ishikawa development site. It has been the head office since April 1, 2024.
Source: Olympus company profile · release, Oct 26, 2023
Did Olympus move out of Shinjuku?
Yes. Until March 2024 the head office was in the Shinjuku Monolith in Nishi-Shinjuku. Olympus moved it to Hachioji to bring head-office functions and all businesses onto one site; the Monolith office is now the Shinjuku Satellite Office.
Source: Olympus release, Oct 26, 2023 · Shinjuku Satellite Office access page
How big is the Olympus Global Headquarters?
The office covers 78,524 m² (about 845,000 sq ft) and about 6,500 people work there.
Source: NOPA award page, 39th Nikkei New Office Award
Who designed the Olympus Global Headquarters?
Planus planned and designed the office, which was built out by Kitano Construction; Shimizu Corporation planned, designed and built the buildings. Planus's Building 1 renovation (18,900 m²) was completed in April 2023.
Source: NOPA award page · Planus project page
Can you visit Olympus's headquarters?
Yes, the Olympus Museum inside the Global Headquarters is free, open 10:00–17:00 on business days, with guided visits of about 60–70 minutes. Book by phone at least three business days ahead.
Source: Olympus Museum visitor page
Does Olympus allow remote work?
Yes. Olympus recommends hybrid work based on activity-based working: there is no company-wide cap on work-from-home days, employees get a home-working allowance and can use shared offices, and flextime has no core hours (5:00–22:00).
Source: Olympus careers site, “Ways of working” and recruiting guidelines
What benefits does Olympus offer in Japan?
129 days off a year, 20 days of paid leave from the first year, a five-day “Creative Holiday”, an in-house nursery at the Global HQ, ¥20,000 per child for non-managers, free cancer screening from age 35 and a cafeteria plan.
Source: Olympus careers site, “Benefits”
Where was Olympus founded?
In the Hatagaya district of Shibuya, Tokyo, on October 12, 1919, as Takachiho Seisakusho, a company set up to make microscopes in Japan.
Source: Olympus, “Founding of Olympus” and chronology
How many people work at Olympus?
28,138 consolidated employees on March 31, 2026, in 40 countries and regions.
Source: Olympus company profile · Facts & Figures
How much do new graduates earn at Olympus?
Monthly base pay for 2027 graduates is ¥283,200 with a bachelor's degree, ¥313,200 with a master's and ¥360,000 with a doctorate, with a yearly bonus in July.
Source: Olympus new-graduate recruiting guidelines 2027
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