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Takeda Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Takeda · Tokyo, Japan
A 24-storey Tokyo headquarters designed around eight kanji for “life force”, in the Nihonbashi district where Takeda has worked for more than 100 years.
The Nihonbashi tower, the benefits in Japan and 245 years of office history — then the pay. Every number from Takeda's filings, careers pages and newsroom, and from the architects' own project pages.
- 45,578 m²floor area, 24 floors above ground
- 1,300people on the renovated office floors
- +20%company top-up on employee share buying (Japan)
- 1781first medicine shop, Doshomachi, Osaka
Sources: Takeda news releases (Mar 20 and Jul 2, 2018) · Form 20-F FY2025 · takeda.com history and Japanese careers pages · Nikkei New Office Award 2024 entry
Companies / Japan / Pharmaceuticals / Takeda
THE GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS · NIHONBASHI · 2018
Wood, water and eight kanji for “life force”
Creative director Kashiwa Sato built the interiors around the idea of “life force”: eight kanji — life, water, light, earth, trees, people, connections and future — turned into modern artwork on walls, carpets and ceiling lights, with wood used throughout. The public entrance on the 1st floor has a wooden art wall and a water basin; the main lobby on the 4th floor opens to the outside. In 2023 Gensler redesigned the office floors for Takeda's “Ways of Working”, adding a Learning Center, XD Labs and “Engawa Hiroma”, a meeting space based on traditional Japanese architecture.
- 45,578 m² (≈ 490,600 sq ft)
- 24 floors + 4 basements, 123.79 m
- Architect: Nihon Sekkei
- Interiors: Kashiwa Sato / SAMURAI
- 2023 office floors: Gensler
- Public gym and restaurants on B1–2F
The building and its garden
The headquarters stands at 2-1-1 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
Inside: wood, water and light
Creative director Kashiwa Sato built the interiors around the idea of “life force”, with wood used throughout. The public entrance on the 1st floor has a wooden art wall and a water basin. In 2023 Gensler redesigned the office floors for Takeda's “Ways of Working”.
Facts: Takeda news releases (Mar 20 and Jul 2, 2018) · Nihon Sekkei project page · Nikken Sekkei Construction Management project page (2023 renovation) · Nikkei New Office Award 2024 entry (NOPA) · kashiwasato.com
Nihonbashi, Tokyo and Doshomachi, Osaka
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Takeda Global Headquarters | 1-1, Nihonbashi-Honcho 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8668 |
| Osaka head office | 4-1-1 Doshomachi, Chuo-ku, Osaka 540-8645 |
| Shonan Health Innovation Park | 2-26-1 Muraoka-Higashi, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 251-8555 |
Source: Form 20-F FY2025 (global head office address) · takeda.com/jp/careers/new-grads, “Contact and map” · See them on the map ↓
Source: Takeda news release “Completion of Takeda Global Headquarters” (Mar 20, 2018) · Nikken Sekkei Construction Management project page (renovation completed Oct 2023; 16F by D-Sign with SAMURAI) · Nikkei New Office Award 2024 · sq ft converted by eciffo
Office tour videos
Benefits (Japan)
The company adds up to 20% to what employees put into the shareholding association each month.
Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays, May Day and New Year — about 123 days a year, before annual paid leave.
Choose where to work with no limit on telework days, plus flextime to set start and end times.
Paid nursing-care leave for 66 days from its start, plus short-term care leave, shorter hours and a free care helpline.
Paid days for supporting family members, on top of child sick-care leave and shorter hours.
Can also be used for fertility treatment; long-term sick leave covers longer illnesses.
Company-owned or leased single dormitories and family housing (3LDK-type flats).
Since April 1, 2024, benefits treat common-law and same-sex partners as spouses.
Source: takeda.com/jp/careers — new-graduate “Treatment and benefits” and “Takeda's DE&I” pages (2025–26). Plans apply to Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited in Japan.
Why people stay: what Takeda itself says
Certified a Global Top Employer for the 8th year running in 2025 — one of only 17 companies — and a Top Employer in 24 countries.
Apply for new roles through internal job postings, or work for another department without transferring through the in-house side-job system.
Employees in Japan can apply for openings overseas; an accelerator program puts high-potential people on international projects early.
Employees can take up to three years off when a spouse is posted abroad.
Takeda Resource Groups, such as the Hanamizuki gender parity network and TAKE PRIDE Japan, link up with networks in 80 countries and regions.
Top “Gold” rating in Japan's PRIDE Index 2025 for LGBTQ+ inclusion, for the fifth year in a row.
Source: takeda.com/jp/careers, “Takeda's DE&I” page (2025–26)
Who works here
employees worldwide (March 31, 2026)
of them in Japan
people on the Tokyo HQ's office floors 6–19 (2023)
companies certified Global Top Employer in 2025 — Takeda is one
Source: Form 20-F FY2025, Item 6.D (full-time equivalents, permanent employees) · Nikkei New Office Award 2024 entry (NOPA) · takeda.com/jp/careers/dei
Pay at Takeda
Source: takeda.com/jp/careers/new-grads, “Treatment and benefits” (research, development, production, general-track and MSL roles). Monthly base pay in yen; raises once a year and bonuses twice a year come on top.
Takeda's careers site doesn't publish pay by age or a median salary, and its U.S. annual report (Form 20-F) carries no CEO pay ratio.
Office history: from a Doshomachi medicine shop to a 24-storey Tokyo HQ
- 1781 A medicine shop in Doshomachi, Osaka
Chobei Takeda I, aged 32, started selling traditional Japanese and Chinese medicines in Doshomachi, the center of Japan's medicine trade. His small shop bought medicines from wholesalers and sold them in smaller lots to local merchants and doctors.
Source: takeda.com, “Our History”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1852 A new home and warehouse
Chobei Takeda III pulled down the old house in the southeast of Doshomachi Nakabashisuji and built a new home and a warehouse. They stood for about 75 years.
Source: takeda.com, “Our History”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1927 A head office building in Doshomachi
Construction of a head office building began on the site in 1927. In 1920 the shop fronts of Doshomachi had been cut back to widen the street, which was paved with wooden blocks.
Source: takeda.com, “Our History” (English and Japanese)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1991 Takeda Midosuji Building, 4-1-1 Doshomachi
An 11-storey building of 32,821 m² ordered by Takeda, designed by Nikken Sekkei and built by Obayashi and Takenaka, was completed in November 1991 at 4-1-1 Doshomachi. Takeda's Osaka head office address is 4-1-1 Doshomachi.
Source: Obayashi construction record · Kajima property page (address, completion) · takeda.com/jp/careers (Osaka head office address)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Meiji era – 2018 Tokyo headquarters in Nihonbashi
Takeda ran its Tokyo business from Nihonbashi-honcho since the Meiji era; its Tokyo headquarters before 2018 was in Nihonbashi 2-chome. Takeda says it has based its Tokyo operations in the district for more than 100 years.
Source: Takeda news release, Mar 20, 2018 · Nihon Sekkei project page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2018 Takeda Global Headquarters opens
The 24-storey tower at 1-1 Nihonbashi-Honcho 2-chome was completed in March 2018 as part of the Nihonbashi-honcho 2nd District Project and opened on July 2, 2018, as head office for Takeda's operations worldwide. Takeda invested ¥17.9 billion in its construction in the year to March 2018.
Source: Takeda news releases (Mar 20 and Jul 2, 2018) · Form 20-F FY2019
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2023 Office floors rebuilt for “Ways of Working”
About 19,000 m² of office floors were renovated by Gensler and reopened in October 2023 with team floors, a Learning Center, XD Labs and the Engawa Hiroma space. The project won a 2024 Nikkei New Office Award.
Source: Nikken Sekkei Construction Management project page · Nikkei New Office Award 2024 (NOPA)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From the medicine street of Doshomachi in Osaka, where Takeda still keeps a head office, to Nihonbashi in Tokyo, where it has worked for more than a century.
- 1 · 1781Doshomachi, Osaka — Chobei Takeda I's first medicine shop (street number not published; marker on Doshomachi)
- 2 · 19914-1-1 Doshomachi, Osaka — Takeda Midosuji Building; Takeda's Osaka head office address
- 3 · Meiji era – 2018Nihonbashi 2-chome, Tokyo — Former Tokyo headquarters (street number not published; marker in Nihonbashi 2-chome)
- 4 · 20181-1 Nihonbashi-Honcho 2-chome, Tokyo — Takeda Global Headquarters, today
Addresses: Form 20-F FY2025 · Takeda news release (Mar 20, 2018) · takeda.com history and careers pages · Kajima property page
What Takeda does
Takeda began in 1781 as a shop selling traditional Japanese and Chinese medicines in Osaka. Today it researches, makes and sells prescription medicines worldwide, led by gastroenterology, plasma-derived therapies, rare diseases, oncology and neuroscience.
One operating segment; revenue reported by business area.
Where the money came from · revenue by business area, year to March 2026
Source: Form 20-F FY2025, Item 5 (revenue by business area) and Note on segments
Source: Form 20-F FY2025 (consolidated statement of profit or loss; revenue by region) · shares and per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥1.77T → ¥4.51T
47,495 → 47,029
Years are fiscal years ending March 31. Revenue (IFRS): Form 20-F for the years to March 2020, 2023 and 2026. Employees: Form 20-F, Item 6.D (consolidated; from 2021 counted as full-time equivalents). The jump in the year to March 2020 follows the 2019 acquisition of Shire. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President, CEO and representative director since June 2026. Joined in 2019 through the acquisition of Shire; previously led the Plasma-Derived Therapies and U.S. business units.
Joined as Chief Operating Officer in April 2014, became President in June 2014 and CEO in April 2015; succeeded by Julie Kim in June 2026.
Founder: Chobei Takeda I, who opened the business in Doshomachi, Osaka, in 1781.
Source: takeda.com leadership page (Julie Kim) · Form 20-F FY2025, Item 6 · takeda.com history
Takeda: questions people ask
Where is Takeda's headquarters?
Takeda Global Headquarters is at 1-1 Nihonbashi-Honcho 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Takeda also keeps a head office at 4-1-1 Doshomachi in Osaka, the district where it was founded in 1781.
Source: Form 20-F FY2025 · takeda.com/jp/careers/new-grads
Who designed Takeda's headquarters?
Nihon Sekkei did the urban planning and architecture, Takenaka Corporation built it, and Kashiwa Sato (SAMURAI) directed the interior design. Gensler redesigned the office floors in 2023.
Source: Takeda news release, Mar 20, 2018 · Nikken Sekkei Construction Management project page
How big is Takeda Global Headquarters?
About 123.79 m tall, with 24 floors above ground and 4 below, and a total floor area of 45,578 m² (about 490,600 sq ft).
Source: Takeda news release, Mar 20, 2018
When did the Tokyo headquarters open?
The building was completed in March 2018 and held its grand opening on July 2, 2018.
Source: Takeda news releases, Mar 20 and Jul 2, 2018
Can the public visit Takeda's headquarters?
The floors from the 1st basement to the 2nd floor are open to the public, with a sports gym, restaurants and conference rooms. Takeda's own offices are on floors 4 to 24.
Source: Takeda news release, Mar 20, 2018
How many people work at Takeda?
47,029 employees at March 31, 2026, of whom 4,914 were in Japan and 20,356 in the United States. About 1,300 people work on the Tokyo headquarters' office floors 6–19.
Source: Form 20-F FY2025 · Nikkei New Office Award 2024 entry
What benefits does Takeda offer in Japan?
A company top-up of up to 20% on employee share purchases, about 123 days off a year before paid leave, 66 days of paid caregiving leave, 5 paid family support days, 7 paid short-term sick days that can be used for fertility treatment, and company housing.
Source: takeda.com/jp/careers (new graduates; DE&I)
Does Takeda allow remote work?
In Japan, employees can use flextime and a telework system with no cap on the number of days, choosing where they work.
Source: takeda.com/jp/careers/dei
What is the starting salary at Takeda in Japan?
From fiscal 2026, ¥320,000 a month for bachelor's graduates, ¥340,000 for master's graduates and up to ¥383,000 for doctorates in research roles, with bonuses twice a year.
Source: takeda.com/jp/careers/new-grads
Who is Takeda's CEO?
Julie Kim, President and CEO since June 2026. She succeeded Christophe Weber, CEO since April 2015.
Source: takeda.com leadership page · Form 20-F FY2025
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