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Sansan Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Sansan · Tokyo, Japan
Five floors above Shibuya Station built around “Nature”: a Park for more than 100 people, over 180 meeting rooms and booths, and rooms named from Aurora to W chosen by the staff.
The Shibuya Sakura Stage office that opened in September 2024, the in-house programs with names like “Yoriai” and “Donicho”, and the road from Ichigaya via Omotesando — then the business. Every number from Sansan's own site, ESG data and results notices, and the designers' project pages.
- 5 floors28F–32F, Shibuya Sakura Stage
- 180+meeting rooms and private booths at HQ
- 1,717people joined “Yoriai” after-work drinks (FY2025.5)
- 80.2%of fathers took childcare leave (FY2026.5)
Sources: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024 · mimi office tour (Nov 7, 2024) · jp.corp-sansan.com recruit culture page · ESG data FY2026.5
Companies / Japan / Business software (SaaS) / Sansan
THE NEWEST OFFICE · SHIBUYA SAKURA STAGE · SEPTEMBER 2024
Five floors above Shibuya Station designed around one word: Nature
On September 30, 2024 Sansan brought several offices scattered around Omotesando together on floors 28 to 32 of the SHIBUYA Tower at Shibuya Sakura Stage, next to JR Shibuya Station. From the 28th-floor sky lobby you walk straight into the “Park”, an open area with plants for more than 100 people that hosts lunches, all-hands meetings and after-work drinks. Next to it is “Garden”, a seminar room for outside events. Floors 29–32 are free-address work floors linked by internal stairs, with standing desks, booth seats, a round reception room called “Hanare”, a studio, a rest room and a multi-purpose room for nursing or prayer.
- Floors 28–32, SHIBUYA Tower
- Park: room for 100+ people
- 180+ meeting rooms and booths
- Interiors: MEC Design International
- iF DESIGN AWARD 2026
- Opened September 30, 2024
Park and the 28th-floor entrance (2024)
From the 28th-floor sky lobby you walk straight into the Park, an open area with plants for more than 100 people that hosts lunches, all-hands meetings and after-work drinks.
Work floors 29–32: free address, booths and internal stairs
Floors 29–32 are free-address work floors linked by internal stairs, with standing desks and booth seats.
Hanare, meeting rooms and other rooms
The work floors also hold a round reception room called Hanare, more than 180 meeting rooms and booths, a studio and a multi-purpose room.
Facts: Sansan news release (Sep 30, 2024) · mimi “New HQ office tour” (Nov 7, 2024) · MEC Design International project page · Japan Space Design Award 2025 longlist page · Endo Lighting project page
Where Sansan works in Shibuya
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Head office (floors 28–32) | Shibuya Sakura Stage SHIBUYA Tower 28F, 1-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-6228 |
| Kansai branch | Kanden Fudosan Dojimahama Building 3F, 1-4-19 Dojimahama, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0004 |
| Fukuoka branch | WeWork Gates Fukuoka 11F, 3-7-24 Nakasu, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 810-0801 |
| Chubu branch | Sakae Center Building 3F, 3-13-20 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya 460-0008 |
Source: jp.corp-sansan.com company profile (also lists satellite offices Sansan Kamiyama Lab, Sansan Innovation Lab and Sansan Nagaoka Lab) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Sansan news release (Sep 30, 2024: building facts, typical floor “about 840 tsubo”) · Japan Space Design Award 2025 page (credits) · MEC Design International project page (awards) · Endo Lighting project page. m² and sq ft converted by eciffo (1 tsubo = 3.3058 m²).
Benefits and in-house programs (Japan)
After work, drinks including alcohol and light food are free, so people from different teams can talk.
Three consecutive days of special leave to step away from daily work and take in ideas from outside.
Part of the rent is paid for employees whose nearest station is in a designated area near the office.
Work on a weekend day and take a weekday off instead, for quiet, meeting-free focus.
Helps pay for non-certified daycare and services that make work and parenting possible.
Online doctor's consultations and low-dose pill prescriptions for period and PMS care.
Employees can buy Sansan shares through the employee shareholding association, from small amounts.
Share of paid annual leave employees actually took (FY2026.5).
Source: jp.corp-sansan.com/recruit/newgrads/culture (programs apply to employees who meet set conditions) · ESG data FY2026.5. Amounts for rent and childcare support are not published there; in 2014 Sansan raised the rent subsidy to ¥30,000 a month (news release, Mar 3, 2014).
Why people stay: what Sansan itself says
Since 2021 Sansan has worked “office-centric”: in-person communication at the core, combined with remote work.
An internal job-posting round every six months lets people apply to move to another team.
Specially trained employees coach colleagues one to one; 757 participations in FY2026.5.
“Yoiko” clubs run by employees — from saunas and gyoza to bird-watching and bouldering.
Average yearly education and training per employee in FY2026.5.
Of employees who took childcare leave in FY2026.5, 99.8% came back to work.
Source: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024 · jp.corp-sansan.com/recruit/newgrads/culture · ESG data (FY2026.5)
Who works here
employees in the group (Aug 31, 2026)
average age
nationalities, including Japan
left during FY2026.5
Source: Sansan ESG data FY2026.5 (Sansan and overseas subsidiaries; STEM = engineers, researchers and creators) · company profile (group headcount)
Pay at Sansan
Men ¥8,657,878, women ¥7,013,810. Up from ¥7,516,251 in FY2024.5. Average age 32.1. This is an average, not a median; Sansan does not publish a CEO pay ratio.
Source: Sansan ESG data (fiscal year ended May 31, 2026)
Office history: from Ichigaya to the top of Shibuya Sakura Stage
- 2007 Founded on June 11, 2007
Chikahiro Terada, who had worked at Mitsui & Co., including in Silicon Valley, founded the company as Sansan Co., Ltd. together with co-founders including Kei Tomioka and Kenji Shiomi.
Source: jp.corp-sansan.com company profile and Leaders page · news release, Mar 3, 2014
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2008 Nihon Senshoku Kaikan, Ichigaya
Growing business and headcount took the company to the 4th floor of the Nihon Senshoku Kaikan at 4 Yonbancho, Chiyoda-ku, four minutes from Ichigaya Station. Business there began on October 20, 2008.
Source: Sansan news release, Oct 17, 2008
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2010 Sansan Kamiyama Lab
In October 2010 Sansan opened a satellite office in a renovated old house in Kamiyama, Tokushima. The change of scene there shaped how it designed its later offices.
Source: Sansan news release, Mar 3, 2014
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2014 Aoyama Oval Building, Omotesando
On March 3, 2014 the head office moved from Ichigaya to the 13th floor of the Aoyama Oval Building at 5-52-2 Jingumae, and the registered name became Sansan, Inc. The office theme was “an office with a change-of-scene effect”: an indoor courtyard of plants from around the world by plant hunter Seijun Nishihata with hammocks and a loft, a live camera link to Kamiyama, and an entrance wall of blue stone quarried in Kamiyama. Designer: Kazukiyo Suma.
Source: Sansan news release, Mar 3, 2014
Aoyama Oval Building, Sansan's head office 2014–2024 · Rs1421 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2021 Office-centric work
Sansan began working “office-centric”: face-to-face communication at the core, combined with remote work.
Source: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2024 Shibuya Sakura Stage, floors 28–32
On September 30, 2024 Sansan moved its head office to the SHIBUYA Tower of Shibuya Sakura Stage, next to JR Shibuya Station, bringing together several offices that had been scattered around Omotesando. Instead of congratulatory flowers it asked for named lanterns for a Shibuya Awa Odori dance festival it co-hosted on November 2, 2024.
Source: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From Ichigaya to Omotesando to Shibuya: about 6 km in a straight line, with each move bringing the company closer to one big station.
- 1 · 2008Nihon Senshoku Kaikan, Ichigaya — 4 Yonbancho, Chiyoda-ku — office from October 2008
- 2 · 2014Aoyama Oval Building, Omotesando — 5-52-2 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku — head office 2014–2024
- 3 · 2024Shibuya Sakura Stage SHIBUYA Tower — 1-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku — today's head office, floors 28–32
Addresses: Sansan news releases (Oct 17, 2008; Mar 3, 2014; Sep 30, 2024)
What Sansan does
Sansan started in 2007 with one goal: managing business cards in the cloud. Its mission is “to turn encounters into innovation”. Today it sells services that change the way people work: the business database “Sansan”, the business-card app “Eight”, the accounting service “Bill One” and the contract service “Contract One”.
Main businesses: Sansan/Bill One (business database, invoices and contracts for companies) and Eight (the business-card app and events).
Source: Sansan IR notice, Jul 13, 2026 (FY2026.5 results vs. forecast) · IR financial highlights (Q1 FY2027.5) · company profile
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥25.5B → ¥53.8B
1,782 → 2,177
Fiscal years end May 31. Revenue (consolidated, Japanese GAAP): Sansan IR notices of Jul 11, 2024, Jul 14, 2025 and Jul 13, 2026. Employees: ESG data (Sansan and overseas subsidiaries, year-end). Earlier years are in PDF/xlsx filings we could not check. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Founder. Representative Director, President, CEO and CPO. Formerly at Mitsui & Co.; also chairman of Kamiyama Marugoto College of Technology, opened in 2023.
Founder: Chikahiro Terada, with co-founders including Kei Tomioka (now COO) and Kenji Shiomi (now CIO).
Source: jp.corp-sansan.com company profile and Leaders page
Sansan: questions people ask
Where is Sansan's headquarters?
On the 28th floor of the SHIBUYA Tower at Shibuya Sakura Stage, 1-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, next to JR Shibuya Station. Sansan uses floors 28 to 32.
Source: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024 · company profile
When did Sansan move to Shibuya Sakura Stage?
On September 30, 2024. Before that, the head office was on the 13th floor of the Aoyama Oval Building in Omotesando from March 2014, with other offices scattered around the area.
Source: Sansan news releases, Sep 30, 2024 and Mar 3, 2014
Who designed Sansan's office?
MEC Design International did the interior design, with direction by Kazukiyo Suma (Island and office), who also designed the 2014 Omotesando office. Kajima Corporation built it.
Source: Japan Space Design Award 2025 page · MEC Design International · news release, Mar 3, 2014
What is the concept of Sansan's office?
“Nature”, meaning both nature and essence: people draw energy from nature and act on what really matters. Plants fill the open “Park”, and the 23 meeting rooms on the 28th floor are named after nature from A to W, such as Aurora, Beach and Canyon, with names chosen by employees.
Source: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024
Does Sansan allow remote work?
Sansan works “office-centric”: since 2021 face-to-face communication has been at the core, combined with remote work.
Source: Sansan news release, Sep 30, 2024
What benefits does Sansan offer?
In-house programs include “Yoriai” free after-work drinks and snacks, three days of “Charge” leave, “H2O” rent support for living near the office, “Donicho” weekday–weekend swaps, “OYACO” childcare support, company-paid online pill prescriptions and an employee stock plan.
Source: jp.corp-sansan.com/recruit/newgrads/culture
How many people work at Sansan?
2,066 at Sansan, Inc. and 2,323 in the group as of August 31, 2026. Women make up 36.1% of employees (FY2026.5).
Source: Company profile · ESG data
How much do Sansan employees earn?
The average annual salary of full-time employees was ¥8,082,899 in the year to May 2026, with an average age of 32.1.
Source: Sansan ESG data FY2026.5
Do men take parental leave at Sansan?
Yes. 80.2% of eligible men took childcare leave in FY2026.5 (women 100%), and 99.8% returned to work afterwards.
Source: Sansan ESG data FY2026.5
Who is Sansan's CEO?
Chikahiro Terada, who founded the company on June 11, 2007 and is its Representative Director, President and CEO.
Source: Company profile · Leaders page
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