2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN’S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced more than fifty gatherings across thirteen cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture.
Tokyo Salone is a design-led cultural infrastructure connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners, studios, and institutions.
Built on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s international network, the platform brings together over 300,000 designers, architects, technologists, filmmakers, chefs, artists, and cultural leaders worldwide.
Across gatherings, exhibitions, salons, research publications, and year-round programs, Tokyo Salone creates the conditions for meaningful exchange between global perspectives and regional practice.
Each November the platform convenes its flagship gathering in Tokyo, bringing this global community into direct dialogue with Japan’s creative industries and emerging voices.
Programming prioritizes exchange over exhibition.
Conversations, workshops, exhibitions, salons, and city-wide encounters unfold across a carefully curated ecosystem designed to strengthen Japan’s creative landscape while extending its influence outward.
Tokyo Salone exists for the long term.
Each edition is a contribution to the cultural fabric of the region, supporting emerging creators while connecting them to global networks, opportunity, and dialogue.
why tokyo,
why now
Japan is entering a renewed phase of global relevance. Cultural influence is accelerating. Deep technology and AI are reshaping creative and industrial practice. A new generation of Japanese practitioners is actively seeking exchange with the world.
What has been missing is a contemporary platform able to convene these forces with clarity, continuity, and international reach.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Surface the real journeys behind creative practice, including process, risk, recalibration, and failure, accelerating professional growth.
integrate
Connect disciplines that rarely meet in the same room, from mobility engineering to gastronomy, architecture to anime.
connect
Act as a pathfinding platform for emerging voices across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Position Tokyo as a global reference point for future-facing cultural leadership.
Tokyo Salone is not a trade show. It is not an industry expo.
It is a long-term cultural platform designed for candor, rigor, and collaboration.
A YEAR-ROUND CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Tokyo Salone unfolds throughout the year through a constellation of gatherings across Tokyo.
Architects, technologists, chefs, artists, makers, operators, and future generations meet in the same rooms to exchange ideas, responsibility, and possibility.
Some gatherings
are intimate.
Some are public.
Some are
invitation-led.
Together they form a cultural infrastructure designed to support long-term creative exchange.
By the time the flagship gathering arrives each November, relationships are continuations, not introductions.
2026
program
TONALISM
Tokyo Area
November 11–December 20, 2026
TONALISM, Environmental Music as Cultural Exchange, is an ambient music program presented by KCRW in partnership with dublab and dublab Japan, and Semi Permanent for Tokyo Salone 2026. Rooted in Japanese environmental music and deep listening culture, the project treats music as atmosphere rather than performance. Inspired by listening bars and community radio, it offers a calm counterpoint across the Salone, venues to slow down and tune in. Through live environments, broadcast, and a month long 24 hour stream, TONALISM extends across Tokyo and Los Angeles as a shared cultural practice.
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Tokyo American Club
November 13, 2026
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Tokyo American Club
November 14, 2026
A cross-disciplinary forum examining climate, cities, emerging technologies, and the ethical systems shaping our shared future.
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of venture, academia, technology, the arts, and business. Through multidisciplinary inquiry and applied speculation, we move beyond inspiration toward consequence.
Exploring:
- Speculative design as ethical foresight
- Physical AI in lived, organizational, and civic contexts
- Climate adaptation and post-carbon systems
- Cities as living systems, from infrastructure to intimacy
- Education, play, labor, and creativity in an automated age
- Governance and evolving social contracts of technology
- Failure, uncertainty, and imagination as strategic intelligence
NOURISH
Tokyo American Club
November 15–16, 2026
Nourish is a two-day, invitation-led gastronomy symposium exploring the future of food, culture, and leadership.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Nourish offers a more deliberate rhythm within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons in shared inquiry to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practice across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and civic responsibility
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as forms of culinary intelligence
Shibuya,
The Culture of
Modern Luxury
Midori.so, Tokyo
November 18, 2026
This Speculative Futures Special Edition is a closed forum convening under-30 cultural leaders to examine how modern luxury is being prototyped in Shibuya, where proximity, experimentation, and youth culture redefine global taste in real time.
Exploring:
- How modern luxury is emerging from cultural ecosystems rather than legacy institutions
- Youth-led fashion movements redefining taste, authorship, and influence
- Textile innovation and material experimentation as new markers of luxury
- Independent studios shaping the aesthetics of a post-brand generation
- Image culture, music, and digital media as engines of fashion evolution
- Shibuya as a living laboratory for global style and creative reinvention
- Responsibility, stewardship, and cultural authorship in the next generation of designers
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 18, 2026
After the Flame with Soho House Tokyo, is an intimate, invitation-led gathering where participants reconvene after Speculative Futures to reflect, integrate, and translate the day’s conversations into lived practice across culture, technology, and society.
Exploring:
- The insights and tensions emerging from Speculative Futures dialogues
- Climate responsibility translated from theory into everyday practice
- AI, infrastructure, and the human systems that must evolve alongside them
- Cities, culture, and the ethics of designing for long-term consequence
- Food, hospitality, and ritual as systems of care and regeneration
- Collective reflection across disciplines in a smaller circle of peers
- From speculation to stewardship, turning ideas into responsibility
Friends Of with Snøhetta
Tokyo Area
November 18—December 10, 2026
A cross-cultural exhibition exploring the architectural, ecological, and cultural wisdom of Japan’s Indigenous peoples, the Ainu of Hokkaido and the Ryūkyūan communities of the southern islands, through dialogue between tradition, land, and contemporary design practice.
Exploring:
- Indigenous relationships to land, sea, and seasonal knowledge
- Ainu and Ryūkyūan cultural traditions as living systems of design and stewardship
- Architecture shaped by climate, ecology, and material intelligence
- Oral histories, craftspersonship, and cultural transmission across generations
- Contemporary design dialogue with Indigenous knowledge systems
- Cultural preservation, visibility, and the ethics of representation
- Future imaginaries rooted in ancestral wisdom and ecological balance
Held IN SOUND
Shunkō-in, Kyoto
November 26, 2026
Held In Sound, A Moments Special Edition, is an intimate evening curated by Semi Permanent and held at Shunkō-in Temple during the Tokyo Salone season. Fewer than 25 guests gather for a quiet coda, a moment of listening after exchange, reflection after dialogue. The experience is analog and happens only once. What remains is presence, memory, and the quality of shared attention. Guests leave nourished, not stimulated.
Moments
Midori.so
Quartery / Monthly
Salon-scale gatherings designed for intimate dialogue, sponsorship, and creative reflection.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Soho House Tokyo
Quartery / Monthly
Monthly cultural exchange programming developed in partnership with Soho House Tokyo.
Designed To Be Different
Cross-Disciplinary by Design
Tokyo Salone intentionally brings distinct disciplines into conversation, spanning design and technology, gastronomy and mobility, and anime and architecture. Programming prioritises informed exchange over parallel discussion
Global x Domestic Exchange
Tokyo Salone brings internationally recognised leaders, many engaging directly with Japan for the first time, into dialogue with emerging Japanese talent, with an emphasis on learning, mentorship, and professional connection.
An Ecosystem, Not a One-Off Event
Tokyo Salone operates year-round through salons, exhibitions, forums, and cultural gatherings. The annual November program serves as a culmination of these relationships.
An Intimate Cultural Environment
The flagship gathering takes place at the Tokyo American Club, an architecturally significant venue designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli. The setting supports focused dialogue among senior cultural leaders, practitioners, and emerging voices.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Collective Practice
Friends Of
Intimate Cadence
Moments
Temporal Flow
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Emergent Signals
Future Of
constant reinvention
Shibuya
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Tokyo Salone it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum for global and domestic voices to meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design distric, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
It supports experimentation, workshops, and intimate dialogue within the Tokyo Salone platform. Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of cultural practitioners, designers, technologists, chefs, strategists, and researchers.
Guided by an international advisory network, the platform is designed not as a one-off event, but as a long-term act of cultural stewardship.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
TOKYO SALONE
Tickets will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
Ticket access across the Tokyo Salone constellations varies by experience.
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownWorkshops and Talent Labs
3-day ticketed event.
Speculative Futures
1-day ticketed event.
Nourish
2-day ticketed event.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
Moments
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks, with Soho House
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
Subscribers receive first notice of ticket releases, program updates, and speaker announcements.
More details will be released in Spring 2026.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
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Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
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tokyo salone
2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN’S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced more than fifty gatherings across thirteen cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture.
Tokyo Salone is a design-led cultural infrastructure connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners, studios, and institutions.
Built on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s international network, the platform brings together over 300,000 designers, architects, technologists, filmmakers, chefs, artists, and cultural leaders worldwide.
Across gatherings, exhibitions, salons, research publications, and year-round programs, Tokyo Salone creates the conditions for meaningful exchange between global perspectives and regional practice.
Each November the platform convenes its flagship gathering in Tokyo, bringing this global community into direct dialogue with Japan’s creative industries and emerging voices.
Programming prioritizes exchange over exhibition.
Conversations, workshops, exhibitions, salons, and city-wide encounters unfold across a carefully curated ecosystem designed to strengthen Japan’s creative landscape while extending its influence outward.
Tokyo Salone exists for the long term.
Each edition is a contribution to the cultural fabric of the region, supporting emerging creators while connecting them to global networks, opportunity, and dialogue.
why tokyo,
why now
Japan is entering a renewed phase of global relevance. Cultural influence is accelerating. Deep technology and AI are reshaping creative and industrial practice. A new generation of Japanese practitioners is actively seeking exchange with the world.
What has been missing is a contemporary platform able to convene these forces with clarity, continuity, and international reach.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Surface the real journeys behind creative practice, including process, risk, recalibration, and failure, accelerating professional growth.
integrate
Connect disciplines that rarely meet in the same room, from mobility engineering to gastronomy, architecture to anime.
connect
Act as a pathfinding platform for emerging voices across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Position Tokyo as a global reference point for future-facing cultural leadership.
Tokyo Salone is not a trade show. It is not an industry expo.
It is a long-term cultural platform designed for candor, rigor, and collaboration.
A YEAR-ROUND CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Tokyo Salone unfolds throughout the year through a constellation of gatherings across Tokyo.
Architects, technologists, chefs, artists, makers, operators, and future generations meet in the same rooms to exchange ideas, responsibility, and possibility.
Some gatherings are intimate.
Some are public.
Some are invitation-led.
Together they form a cultural infrastructure designed to support long-term creative exchange.
By the time the flagship gathering arrives each November, relationships are continuations, not introductions.
2026 program
TONALISM
Tokyo Area
November 11–December 20, 2026
TONALISM, Environmental Music as Cultural Exchange, is an ambient music program presented by KCRW in partnership with dublab and dublab Japan, and Semi Permanent for Tokyo Salone 2026. Rooted in Japanese environmental music and deep listening culture, the project treats music as atmosphere rather than performance. Inspired by listening bars and community radio, it offers a calm counterpoint across the Salone, venues to slow down and tune in. Through live environments, broadcast, and a month long 24 hour stream, TONALISM extends across Tokyo and Los Angeles as a shared cultural practice.
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Tokyo American Club
November 13, 2026
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Tokyo American Club
November 14, 2026
A cross-disciplinary forum examining climate, cities, emerging technologies, and the ethical systems shaping our shared future.
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of venture, academia, technology, the arts, and business. Through multidisciplinary inquiry and applied speculation, we move beyond inspiration toward consequence.
Exploring:
- Speculative design as ethical foresight
- Physical AI in lived, organizational, and civic contexts
- Climate adaptation and post-carbon systems
- Cities as living systems, from infrastructure to intimacy
- Education, play, labor, and creativity in an automated age
- Governance and evolving social contracts of technology
- Failure, uncertainty, and imagination as strategic intelligence
NOURISH
Tokyo American Club
November 15–16, 2026
Nourish is a two-day, invitation-led gastronomy symposium exploring the future of food, culture, and leadership.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Nourish offers a more deliberate rhythm within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons in shared inquiry to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practice across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and civic responsibility
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as forms of culinary intelligence
Shibuya,
The Culture of
Modern Luxury
Midori.so, Tokyo
November 18, 2026
This Speculative Futures Special Edition is a closed forum convening under-30 cultural leaders to examine how modern luxury is being prototyped in Shibuya, where proximity, experimentation, and youth culture redefine global taste in real time.
Exploring:
- How modern luxury is emerging from cultural ecosystems rather than legacy institutions
- Youth-led fashion movements redefining taste, authorship, and influence
- Textile innovation and material experimentation as new markers of luxury
- Independent studios shaping the aesthetics of a post-brand generation
- Image culture, music, and digital media as engines of fashion evolution
- Shibuya as a living laboratory for global style and creative reinvention
- Responsibility, stewardship, and cultural authorship in the next generation of designers
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 18, 2026
After the Flame with Soho House Tokyo, is an intimate, invitation-led gathering where participants reconvene after Speculative Futures to reflect, integrate, and translate the day’s conversations into lived practice across culture, technology, and society.
Exploring:
- The insights and tensions emerging from Speculative Futures dialogues
- Climate responsibility translated from theory into everyday practice
- AI, infrastructure, and the human systems that must evolve alongside them
- Cities, culture, and the ethics of designing for long-term consequence
- Food, hospitality, and ritual as systems of care and regeneration
- Collective reflection across disciplines in a smaller circle of peers
- From speculation to stewardship, turning ideas into responsibility
Friends Of with Snøhetta
Tokyo Area
November 18—December 10, 2026
A cross-cultural exhibition exploring the architectural, ecological, and cultural wisdom of Japan’s Indigenous peoples, the Ainu of Hokkaido and the Ryūkyūan communities of the southern islands, through dialogue between tradition, land, and contemporary design practice.
Exploring:
- Indigenous relationships to land, sea, and seasonal knowledge
- Ainu and Ryūkyūan cultural traditions as living systems of design and stewardship
- Architecture shaped by climate, ecology, and material intelligence
- Oral histories, craftspersonship, and cultural transmission across generations
- Contemporary design dialogue with Indigenous knowledge systems
- Cultural preservation, visibility, and the ethics of representation
- Future imaginaries rooted in ancestral wisdom and ecological balance
Held IN SOUND
Shunkō-in, Kyoto
November 26, 2026
Held In Sound, A Moments Special Edition, is an intimate evening curated by Semi Permanent and held at Shunkō-in Temple during the Tokyo Salone season. Fewer than 25 guests gather for a quiet coda, a moment of listening after exchange, reflection after dialogue. The experience is analog and happens only once. What remains is presence, memory, and the quality of shared attention. Guests leave nourished, not stimulated.
Moments
Midori.so
Quartery / Monthly
Salon-scale gatherings designed for intimate dialogue, sponsorship, and creative reflection.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Soho House Tokyo
Quartery / Monthly
Monthly cultural exchange programming developed in partnership with Soho House Tokyo.
Designed To Be Different
Cross-Disciplinary by Design
Tokyo Salone intentionally brings distinct disciplines into conversation, spanning design and technology, gastronomy and mobility, and anime and architecture. Programming prioritises informed exchange over parallel discussion
Global x Domestic Exchange
Tokyo Salone brings internationally recognised leaders, many engaging directly with Japan for the first time, into dialogue with emerging Japanese talent, with an emphasis on learning, mentorship, and professional connection.
An Ecosystem, Not a One-Off Event
Tokyo Salone operates year-round through salons, exhibitions, forums, and cultural gatherings. The annual November program serves as a culmination of these relationships.
An Intimate Cultural Environment
The flagship gathering takes place at the Tokyo American Club, an architecturally significant venue designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli. The setting supports focused dialogue among senior cultural leaders, practitioners, and emerging voices.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Collective Practice
Friends Of
Intimate Cadence
Moments
Temporal Flow
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Emergent Signals
Future Of
constant reinvention
Shibuya
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Tokyo Salone it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum for global and domestic voices to meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design distric, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
It supports experimentation, workshops, and intimate dialogue within the Tokyo Salone platform. Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of cultural practitioners, designers, technologists, chefs, strategists, and researchers.
Guided by an international advisory network, the platform is designed not as a one-off event, but as a long-term act of cultural stewardship.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
TOKYO SALONE
Tickets will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
Ticket access across the Tokyo Salone constellations varies by experience.
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownWorkshops and Talent Labs
3-day ticketed event.
Speculative Futures
1-day ticketed event.
Nourish
2-day ticketed event.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
Moments
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks, with Soho House
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
Subscribers receive first notice of ticket releases, program updates, and speaker announcements.
More details will be released in Spring 2026.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
subscribe
© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
tokyo salone
2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN’S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced more than fifty gatherings across thirteen cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture.
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s first truly global, design-led cultural gathering.
It convenes our international alum community alongside regional and domestic leaders across architecture, design, mobility, technology, film, gastronomy, and music. Programming is curated for meaningful exchange, not exhibition, through conversations, salons, commissions, workshops, and city-wide activations.
Programming prioritizes exchange over exhibition.
Conversations, workshops, exhibitions, salons, and city-wide encounters unfold across a carefully curated ecosystem designed to strengthen Japan’s creative landscape while extending its influence outward.
Tokyo Salone exists for the long term.
Each edition is a contribution to the cultural fabric of the region, supporting emerging creators while connecting them to global networks, opportunity, and dialogue.
why tokyo,
why now
Japan is entering a renewed phase of global relevance. Cultural influence is accelerating. Deep technology and AI are reshaping creative and industrial practice. A new generation of Japanese practitioners is actively seeking exchange with the world.
What has been missing is a contemporary platform able to convene these forces with clarity, continuity, and international reach.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Surface the real journeys behind creative practice, including process, risk, recalibration, and failure, accelerating professional growth.
integrate
Connect disciplines that rarely meet in the same room, from mobility engineering to gastronomy, architecture to anime.
connect
Act as a pathfinding platform for emerging voices across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Position Tokyo as a global reference point for future-facing cultural leadership.
Tokyo Salone is not a trade show. It is not an industry expo.
It is a long-term cultural platform designed for candor, rigor, and collaboration.
A YEAR-ROUND
CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Tokyo Salone unfolds throughout the year through a constellation of gatherings across Tokyo.
Architects, technologists, chefs, artists, makers, operators, and future generations meet in the same rooms to exchange ideas, responsibility, and possibility.
Some gatherings are intimate.
Some are public.
Some are invitation-led.
Together they form a cultural infrastructure designed
to support long-term creative exchange.
By the time the flagship gathering arrives each November,
relationships are continuations, not introductions.
2026 program
TONALISM
Tokyo Area
November 11–December 20, 2026
TONALISM, Environmental Music as Cultural Exchange, is an ambient music program presented by KCRW in partnership with dublab and dublab Japan, and Semi Permanent for Tokyo Salone 2026. Rooted in Japanese environmental music and deep listening culture, the project treats music as atmosphere rather than performance. Inspired by listening bars and community radio, it offers a calm counterpoint across the Salone, venues to slow down and tune in. Through live environments, broadcast, and a month long 24 hour stream, TONALISM extends across Tokyo and Los Angeles as a shared cultural practice.
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Tokyo American Club
November 13, 2026
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Tokyo American Club
November 14, 2026
A cross-disciplinary forum examining climate, cities, emerging technologies, and the ethical systems shaping our shared future.
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of venture, academia, technology, the arts, and business. Through multidisciplinary inquiry and applied speculation, we move beyond inspiration toward consequence.
Exploring:
- Speculative design as ethical foresight
- Physical AI in lived, organizational, and civic contexts
- Climate adaptation and post-carbon systems
- Cities as living systems, from infrastructure to intimacy
- Education, play, labor, and creativity in an automated age
- Governance and evolving social contracts of technology
- Failure, uncertainty, and imagination as strategic intelligence
NOURISH
Tokyo American Club
November 15–16, 2026
Nourish is a two-day, invitation-led gastronomy symposium exploring the future of food, culture, and leadership.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Nourish offers a more deliberate rhythm within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons in shared inquiry to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practice across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and civic responsibility
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as forms of culinary intelligence
Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury
Midori.so, Tokyo
November 18, 2026
This Speculative Futures Special Edition is a closed forum convening under-30 cultural leaders to examine how modern luxury is being prototyped in Shibuya, where proximity, experimentation, and youth culture redefine global taste in real time.
Exploring:
- How modern luxury is emerging from cultural ecosystems rather than legacy institutions
- Youth-led fashion movements redefining taste, authorship, and influence
- Textile innovation and material experimentation as new markers of luxury
- Independent studios shaping the aesthetics of a post-brand generation
- Image culture, music, and digital media as engines of fashion evolution
- Shibuya as a living laboratory for global style and creative reinvention
- Responsibility, stewardship, and cultural authorship in the next generation of designers
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 18, 2026
After the Flame with Soho House Tokyo, is an intimate, invitation-led gathering where participants reconvene after Speculative Futures to reflect, integrate, and translate the day’s conversations into lived practice across culture, technology, and society.
Exploring:
- The insights and tensions emerging from Speculative Futures dialogues
- Climate responsibility translated from theory into everyday practice
- AI, infrastructure, and the human systems that must evolve alongside them
- Cities, culture, and the ethics of designing for long-term consequence
- Food, hospitality, and ritual as systems of care and regeneration
- Collective reflection across disciplines in a smaller circle of peers
- From speculation to stewardship, turning ideas into responsibility
Friends Of with Snøhetta
Tokyo Area
November 18—December 10, 2026
A cross-cultural exhibition exploring the architectural, ecological, and cultural wisdom of Japan’s Indigenous peoples, the Ainu of Hokkaido and the Ryūkyūan communities of the southern islands, through dialogue between tradition, land, and contemporary design practice.
Exploring:
- Indigenous relationships to land, sea, and seasonal knowledge
- Ainu and Ryūkyūan cultural traditions as living systems of design and stewardship
- Architecture shaped by climate, ecology, and material intelligence
- Oral histories, craftspersonship, and cultural transmission across generations
- Contemporary design dialogue with Indigenous knowledge systems
- Cultural preservation, visibility, and the ethics of representation
- Future imaginaries rooted in ancestral wisdom and ecological balance
Held IN SOUND
Shunkō-in, Kyoto
November 26, 2026
Held In Sound, A Moments Special Edition, is an intimate evening curated by Semi Permanent and held at Shunkō-in Temple during the Tokyo Salone season. Fewer than 25 guests gather for a quiet coda, a moment of listening after exchange, reflection after dialogue. The experience is analog and happens only once. What remains is presence, memory, and the quality of shared attention. Guests leave nourished, not stimulated.
Moments
Midori.so
Quartery / Monthly
Salon-scale gatherings designed for intimate dialogue, sponsorship, and creative reflection.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Soho House Tokyo
Quartery / Monthly
Monthly cultural exchange programming developed in partnership with Soho House Tokyo.
Designed To Be
Different
Cross-Disciplinary by Design
Tokyo Salone intentionally brings distinct disciplines into conversation, spanning design and technology, gastronomy and mobility, and anime and architecture. Programming prioritises informed exchange over parallel discussion
Global x Domestic Exchange
Tokyo Salone brings internationally recognised leaders, many engaging directly with Japan for the first time, into dialogue with emerging Japanese talent, with an emphasis on learning, mentorship, and professional connection.
An Ecosystem, Not a One-Off Event
Tokyo Salone operates year-round through salons, exhibitions, forums, and cultural gatherings. The annual November program serves as a culmination of these relationships.
An Intimate Cultural Environment
The flagship gathering takes place at the Tokyo American Club, an architecturally significant venue designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli. The setting supports focused dialogue among senior cultural leaders, practitioners, and emerging voices.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Collective Practice
Friends Of
Intimate Cadence
Moments
Temporal Flow
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Emergent Signals
Future Of
constant reinvention
Shibuya
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Tokyo Salone it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum for global and domestic voices to meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design distric, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
It supports experimentation, workshops, and intimate dialogue within the Tokyo Salone platform. Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of cultural practitioners, designers, technologists, chefs, strategists, and researchers.
Guided by an international advisory network, the platform is designed not as a one-off event, but as a long-term act of cultural stewardship.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
TOKYO SALONE
Tickets will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
Ticket access across the Tokyo Salone constellations varies by experience.
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownWorkshops and Talent Labs
3-day ticketed event.
Speculative Futures
1-day ticketed event.
Nourish
2-day ticketed event.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
Moments
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks, with Soho House
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
Subscribers receive first notice of ticket releases, program updates, and speaker announcements.
More details will be released in Spring 2026.
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tokyo salone
2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
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20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN’S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced more than fifty gatherings across thirteen cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture.
Tokyo Salone is a design-led cultural infrastructure connecting Japan’s creative ecosystem with a global community of practitioners, studios, and institutions.
Built on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s international network, the platform brings together over 300,000 designers, architects, technologists, filmmakers, chefs, artists, and cultural leaders worldwide.
Across gatherings, exhibitions, salons, research publications, and year-round programs, Tokyo Salone creates the conditions for meaningful exchange between global perspectives and regional practice.
Each November the platform convenes its flagship gathering in Tokyo, bringing this global community into direct dialogue with Japan’s creative industries and emerging voices.
Programming prioritizes exchange over exhibition.
Conversations, workshops, exhibitions, salons, and city-wide encounters unfold across a carefully curated ecosystem designed to strengthen Japan’s creative landscape while extending its influence outward.
Tokyo Salone exists for the long term.
Each edition is a contribution to the cultural fabric of the region, supporting emerging creators while connecting them to global networks, opportunity, and dialogue.
why tokyo,
why now
Japan is entering a renewed phase of global relevance. Cultural influence is accelerating. Deep technology and AI are reshaping creative and industrial practice. A new generation of Japanese practitioners is actively seeking exchange with the world.
What has been missing is a contemporary platform able to convene these forces with clarity, continuity, and international reach.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Surface the real journeys behind creative practice, including process, risk, recalibration, and failure, accelerating professional growth.
integrate
Connect disciplines that rarely meet in the same room, from mobility engineering to gastronomy, architecture to anime.
connect
Act as a pathfinding platform for emerging voices across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Position Tokyo as a global reference point for future-facing cultural leadership.
Tokyo Salone is not a trade show. It is not an industry expo.
It is a long-term cultural platform designed for candor, rigor, and collaboration.
A YEAR-ROUND
CULTURAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
Tokyo Salone unfolds throughout the year through a constellation of gatherings across Tokyo.
Architects, technologists, chefs, artists, makers, operators, and future generations meet in the same rooms to exchange ideas, responsibility, and possibility.
Some gatherings are intimate.
Some are public.
Some are invitation-led.
Together they form a cultural infrastructure designed
to support long-term creative exchange.
By the time the flagship gathering arrives each November,
relationships are continuations, not introductions.
2026 program
TONALISM
Tokyo Area
November 11–December 20, 2026
TONALISM, Environmental Music as Cultural Exchange, is an ambient music program presented by KCRW in partnership with dublab and dublab Japan, and Semi Permanent for Tokyo Salone 2026. Rooted in Japanese environmental music and deep listening culture, the project treats music as atmosphere rather than performance. Inspired by listening bars and community radio, it offers a calm counterpoint across the Salone, venues to slow down and tune in. Through live environments, broadcast, and a month long 24 hour stream, TONALISM extends across Tokyo and Los Angeles as a shared cultural practice.
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Tokyo American Club
November 13, 2026
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Tokyo American Club
November 14, 2026
A cross-disciplinary forum examining climate, cities, emerging technologies, and the ethical systems shaping our shared future.
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of venture, academia, technology, the arts, and business. Through multidisciplinary inquiry and applied speculation, we move beyond inspiration toward consequence.
Exploring:
- Speculative design as ethical foresight
- Physical AI in lived, organizational, and civic contexts
- Climate adaptation and post-carbon systems
- Cities as living systems, from infrastructure to intimacy
- Education, play, labor, and creativity in an automated age
- Governance and evolving social contracts of technology
- Failure, uncertainty, and imagination as strategic intelligence
NOURISH
Tokyo American Club
November 15–16, 2026
Nourish is a two-day, invitation-led gastronomy symposium exploring the future of food, culture, and leadership.
Held during Tokyo Salone month, Nourish offers a more deliberate rhythm within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons in shared inquiry to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practice across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and civic responsibility
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as forms of culinary intelligence
Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury
Midori.so, Tokyo
November 18, 2026
This Speculative Futures Special Edition is a closed forum convening under-30 cultural leaders to examine how modern luxury is being prototyped in Shibuya, where proximity, experimentation, and youth culture redefine global taste in real time.
Exploring:
- How modern luxury is emerging from cultural ecosystems rather than legacy institutions
- Youth-led fashion movements redefining taste, authorship, and influence
- Textile innovation and material experimentation as new markers of luxury
- Independent studios shaping the aesthetics of a post-brand generation
- Image culture, music, and digital media as engines of fashion evolution
- Shibuya as a living laboratory for global style and creative reinvention
- Responsibility, stewardship, and cultural authorship in the next generation of designers
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 18, 2026
After the Flame with Soho House Tokyo, is an intimate, invitation-led gathering where participants reconvene after Speculative Futures to reflect, integrate, and translate the day’s conversations into lived practice across culture, technology, and society.
Exploring:
- The insights and tensions emerging from Speculative Futures dialogues
- Climate responsibility translated from theory into everyday practice
- AI, infrastructure, and the human systems that must evolve alongside them
- Cities, culture, and the ethics of designing for long-term consequence
- Food, hospitality, and ritual as systems of care and regeneration
- Collective reflection across disciplines in a smaller circle of peers
- From speculation to stewardship, turning ideas into responsibility
Friends Of with Snøhetta
Tokyo Area
November 18—December 10, 2026
A cross-cultural exhibition exploring the architectural, ecological, and cultural wisdom of Japan’s Indigenous peoples, the Ainu of Hokkaido and the Ryūkyūan communities of the southern islands, through dialogue between tradition, land, and contemporary design practice.
Exploring:
- Indigenous relationships to land, sea, and seasonal knowledge
- Ainu and Ryūkyūan cultural traditions as living systems of design and stewardship
- Architecture shaped by climate, ecology, and material intelligence
- Oral histories, craftspersonship, and cultural transmission across generations
- Contemporary design dialogue with Indigenous knowledge systems
- Cultural preservation, visibility, and the ethics of representation
- Future imaginaries rooted in ancestral wisdom and ecological balance
Held IN SOUND
Shunkō-in, Kyoto
November 26, 2026
Held In Sound, A Moments Special Edition, is an intimate evening curated by Semi Permanent and held at Shunkō-in Temple during the Tokyo Salone season. Fewer than 25 guests gather for a quiet coda, a moment of listening after exchange, reflection after dialogue. The experience is analog and happens only once. What remains is presence, memory, and the quality of shared attention. Guests leave nourished, not stimulated.
Moments
Midori.so
Quarterly / Monthly
Salon-scale gatherings designed for intimate dialogue, sponsorship, and creative reflection.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Soho House Tokyo
Third-week Monthly
Monthly cultural exchange programming developed in partnership with Soho House Tokyo.
Designed To Be Different
Cross-Disciplinary by Design
Tokyo Salone intentionally brings distinct disciplines into active conversation, spanning design and technology, gastronomy and mobility, anime and architecture. Programming priorities dialogue across fields rather than parallel conversations.
Global x Domestic Exchange
International leaders engage directly with emerging Japanese practitioners, creating mentorship, collaboration, and professional connection.
An Ecosystem, Not a One-Off Event
Tokyo Salone operates year-round through salons, exhibitions, forums, and cultural gatherings. The annual November program serves as a culmination of these relationships.
An Intimate Cultural Environment
The flagship gathering takes place at the Tokyo American Club, an architecturally significant venue designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli. The setting supports focused dialogue among senior cultural leaders, practitioners, and emerging voices.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Collective Practice
Friends Of
Intimate Cadence
Moments
Temporal Flow
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Emergent Signals
Future Of
constant reinvention
Shibuya
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long served as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home within the Azabudai Hills area, the Club brings together members from more than sixty nations, offering a setting where architecture, diplomacy, and cultural dialogue intersect.
For Tokyo Salone it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum for global and domestic voices to meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Since April 2026, located in the Aoyama design district, Soho House Tokyo continues the House’s global tradition of creative community.
Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem it hosts Thirdspace Thirdweeks and selected program gatherings, serving as a year-round site for cultural exchange among members and invited guests.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
It supports experimentation, workshops, and intimate dialogue within the Tokyo Salone platform. Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of cultural practitioners, designers, technologists, chefs, strategists, and researchers.
Guided by an international advisory network, the platform is designed not as a one-off event, but as a long-term act of cultural stewardship.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is designed as long-term cultural infrastructure rather than a single event, allowing partners to participate in an evolving platform that connects global creative communities with Japan’s cultural ecosystem.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway.
To explore partnership alignment, please click the inquiry link below.
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
TOKYO SALONE
Tickets will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
Ticket access across the Tokyo Salone constellations varies by experience.
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations
Nightshift ShakedownWorkshops and Talent Labs
3-day ticketed event.
Speculative Futures
1-day ticketed event.
Nourish
2-day ticketed event.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
Moments
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks, with Soho House
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
Subscribers receive first notice of ticket releases, program updates, and speaker announcements.
More details will be released in Spring 2026.
subscribe for updates
constellations
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
FRIENDS OF
FUTURE OF
THIRDSPACE THIRDWEEKS
MOMENTS
COLLECTIVE
yes,
Legal
Commercial Disclosure
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
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© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE