Operating Incubation Offices

EGG was relaunched in December 2022 with a change of name, a floor expansion and refurbishment, and rebranding. Since 2007, EGG has operated as a business site for growing companies from Japan and overseas. Through this recent renewal, the aim is to further increase the concentration of growing companies from Japan and overseas and enhance the value added of the area as a neighborhood overflowing with opportunities for collaborations and co-creation between companies promoting new technologies and business, in addition to helping to increase Japan’s competitiveness.

The FinTech Center of Tokyo (FINOLAB) is a membership-based community and space based in the Otemachi area of Tokyo aiming to create a FinTech ecosystem and generate new businesses. Mitsubishi Estate established FINOLAB in February 2016 in cooperation with Dentsu Inc. and Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd. as Japan’s first FinTech hub. The center is currently managed by FINOLAB Inc.

Through collaboration with different industries centered on FinTech, FINOLAB supports the development and growth of start-ups, providing the solutions and environment for major companies to promote innovation and help solve issues of business creation. It also aims to build next-generation business ecosystems capable of creating businesses that solve social issues.

The Global Business Hub Tokyo in the Otemachi Financial City Grand Cube is one of the largest business support facilities in Japan for startups and up-and-companies from Japan and overseas. The facility provides business matching events and high-quality networking opportunities, contributing to the development of business for the companies using it. The Global Business Hub Tokyo aims to help create the world's business center of choice in Otemachi, Tokyo.

• Run by the General Incorporated Association Global Business Hub Tokyo and staffed by Mitsubishi Estate

Inspired.Lab is a co-working space established by Mitsubishi Estate together with SAP Japan Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the software company SAP SE, in the Otemachi Building in February 2019. The space is occupied by technology startups and new business development teams from major corporations working on creating new businesses in cutting-edge areas such as AI, IoT, and robotics.

The facility contains a lounge space for stimulating interaction, workshop spaces to use for idea sharing, and a work area that can be used to create prototypes of ideas. Staff from SAP are also permanently onsite to provide both physical and human support for new business creation, including the provision of programs for discovering and developing innovation. Inspired.Lab helps its users test and verify their ideas in the facility, the building, and the surrounding area, thereby facilitating speedy commercialization. Since the facility began operating, a number of new businesses have come to fruition based on the open environment.

TMDU Innovation Park (TIP), established in Ochanomizu, Tokyo in August 2021 to realize a society with better medical care and better health for people, is an innovation community to drive collaboration by academia, companies and start-ups from diverse industries, and government, leading to medical and healthcare innovation.

TIP is a demonstration project to engage in open innovation in an environment in close proximity to the research, educational, and medical sites of Tokyo Medical and Dental University. The university and Mitsubishi Estate are jointly planning and running the project based on a joint research agreement concluded in July 2021. It is hoped many will take advantage of TIP to share time, space, and minds among industry, academia and government, which in turn create ideas that cannot be conceived by a single university or company and accelerate the pace of innovation with the ultimate goal of delivering total healthcare innovation.

Located on a floor of the TOKYO TORCH (Tokiwabashi Project in front of Tokyo Station), TOKIWA BRIDGE is a serviced office center for start-ups that launched in January 2022. Companies that are eligible to become tenants are domestic recently established start-ups and carve-out companies spun off from larger ones as external businesses. With a maximum tenancy period of three years until December 2024, the facility is designed for new companies to blossom.

TOKIWA BRIDGE provides the growing startups with the offices they need to foster a corporate culture, promote interaction among employees, and attract new human resources. Newly designed, flexible contract and usage formats, including day-of-the-week leasing and hot-desking, help accelerate their business growth.

• TOKIWA BRIDGE is a facility with a limited period until December 31, 2024.

The Yurakucho SAAI Wonder Working Community is a membership-based working community with a hub on the 10th floor of the Shin-Yurakucho Building where individuals with diverse values come together to encounter new sensibilities and give shape to ideas. The main target is entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs with a focus on people and individuals.

The aim is to create a community that will nurture individuals not restricted to the conventional framework, such as people who want to take on new challenges while belonging to a company or people in charge of new business searching for businesses within the company, and enable them to thrive and succeed in the era of side jobs and second jobs.

YOXO (pronounced “Yokuzo”) BOX is a growth support center for venture companies established in October 2019 in Kannai, Yokohama. In addition to 12 YOXO BOX OFFICE serviced offices that come with business support, the center is equipped with a co-working space to encourage interaction and an event space that can accommodate up to 100 people.

The name YOXO BOX expresses the meaning that the center will be a sandbox (= testing ground) for creating new interaction in Yokohama. It will promote activities to realize “Innovation City Yokohama” by providing attractive business networks of collaboration between industry, government, and academia, consisting of a large number of mentors, including university professors and well-known entrepreneurs, tenant companies, major companies, and Yokohama City, as well as a full range of business support systems, including programs to support entrepreneurs and promote the creation of businesses, such as a start-up advice service.