
2026
A vision for the future
未来への展望
NOV 13–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
A shared cultural infrastructure, rooted in Japan, curated with teenage engineering
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
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 13–14, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Two days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
Azabudai
November 13, 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.
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:
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Tokyo American Club
November 17, 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:
Shibuya, The Culture of
Modern Luxury
Soho House 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:
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 21, 2026
For this morning, After the Flame reflects on the month of November, and all that moved through Tokyo Salone. A quiet return. Where the room lingers. Conversations soften, edges dissolve, and what was sparked settles into something shared, carried forward into what comes next.
Exploring:
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:
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
Massif Tokyo & 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.
Schedule
view event schedule

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.



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.




Massif Tokyo, located within Ohashi Kaikan in Meguro, is a restaurant, café, and bar shaped by Max Houtzager and Yuki Endo, in collaboration with Terrain, the team behind Parklet Bakery. Rooted in Japanese food culture and informed by global perspectives, its menu is guided by California-based chef Coleman Griffin, with a wine program curated by a former Noble Rot sommelier.
Within the Tokyo Salone constellation, Massif serves as a year-round site for exchange, hosting Moments and select Nourish chef pop-ups that bring members and invited guests into close proximity, a place where conversation settles in and relationships deepen over time.




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
Get Tickets
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations Two days, ticketed event. Convening practitioners of design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture, gathering in proximity.
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.
Part of your passport, inclusive of Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations.
Two days, ticketed event. A shared field. Where taste, time, and memory meet.
One day. Invitation only. A carefully composed room.
One day, ticketed event. A shared room. Where futures are tested, not imagined.
Held in Sound
A two-hour, Kyoto listening experience. Curated by semi permanent × teenage engineering, presented by KCRW.
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
constellations
SHIBUYA
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

2026
A vision for the future
未来への展望
NOV 13–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
A shared cultural infrastructure, rooted in Japan, curated with teenage engineering
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
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 13–14, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Two days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
Azabudai
November 13, 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.
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:
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Tokyo American Club
November 17, 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:
Shibuya, The Culture of
Modern Luxury
Soho House 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:
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 21, 2026
For this morning, After the Flame reflects on the month of November, and all that moved through Tokyo Salone. A quiet return. Where the room lingers. Conversations soften, edges dissolve, and what was sparked settles into something shared, carried forward into what comes next.
Exploring:
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:
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
Massif Tokyo & 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.
Schedule
view event schedule

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
Collective Practice
Friends Of

Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures

Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown

constant reinvention
Shibuya
Intimate Cadence
Moments
Temporal Flow
Thirdspace Thirdweeks
Emergent Signals
Future Of
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.



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.




Massif Tokyo, located within Ohashi Kaikan in Meguro, is a restaurant, café, and bar shaped by Max Houtzager and Yuki Endo, in collaboration with Terrain, the team behind Parklet Bakery. Rooted in Japanese food culture and informed by global perspectives, its menu is guided by California-based chef Coleman Griffin, with a wine program curated by a former Noble Rot sommelier.
Within the Tokyo Salone constellation, Massif serves as a year-round site for exchange, hosting Moments and select Nourish chef pop-ups that bring members and invited guests into close proximity, a place where conversation settles in and relationships deepen over time.




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
Get Tickets
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations Two days, ticketed event. Convening practitioners of design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture, gathering in proximity.
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.
Nightshift Shakedown
Part of your passport, inclusive of Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations.
Nourish
Two days, ticketed event. A shared field. Where taste, time, and memory meet.
Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury
One day. Invitation only. A carefully composed room.
Speculative Futures
One day, ticketed event. A shared room. Where futures are tested, not imagined.
Held in Sound
A two-hour, Kyoto listening experience. Curated by semi permanent × teenage engineering, presented by KCRW.
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
Moments
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
constellations
SHIBUYA
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

2026
A vision for the future
未来への展望
NOV 13–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
A shared cultural infrastructure, rooted in Japan, curated with teenage engineering
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
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 13–14, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Two days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
Azabudai
November 13, 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.
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:
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Soho House Tokyo
November 17, 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:
Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury
Soho House 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:
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 21, 2026
For this morning, After the Flame reflects on the month of November, and all that moved through Tokyo Salone. A quiet return. Where the room lingers. Conversations soften, edges dissolve, and what was sparked settles into something shared, carried forward into what comes next.
Exploring:
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:
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
Massif Tokyo & 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.
Schedule
view event schedule

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.



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.




Massif Tokyo, located within Ohashi Kaikan in Meguro, is a restaurant, café, and bar shaped by Max Houtzager and Yuki Endo, in collaboration with Terrain, the team behind Parklet Bakery. Rooted in Japanese food culture and informed by global perspectives, its menu is guided by California-based chef Coleman Griffin, with a wine program curated by a former Noble Rot sommelier.
Within the Tokyo Salone constellation, Massif serves as a year-round site for exchange, hosting Moments and select Nourish chef pop-ups that bring members and invited guests into close proximity, a place where conversation settles in and relationships deepen over time.




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.
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Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations
Two days, ticketed event. Convening practitioners of design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture, gathering in proximity.
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.
Part of your passport, inclusive of Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations.
Two days, ticketed event. A shared field. Where taste, time, and memory meet.
One day. Invitation only. A carefully composed room.
One day, ticketed event. A shared room. Where futures are tested, not imagined.
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
Held in Sound
A two-hour, Kyoto listening experience. Curated by semi permanent × teenage engineering, presented by KCRW.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks, with Soho House
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
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2026
A vision for the future
未来への展望
NOV 13–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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A shared cultural infrastructure, rooted in Japan, curated with teenage engineering
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
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 13–14, 2026
The central annual gathering where global cultural leaders share ideas, lived experience, and practice across disciplines.
Two days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
Azabudai
November 13, 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.
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:
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Soho House Tokyo
November 17, 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:
Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury
Soho House 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:
AFTER THE FLAME
Soho House Tokyo
November 21, 2026
For this morning, After the Flame reflects on the month of November, and all that moved through Tokyo Salone. A quiet return. Where the room lingers. Conversations soften, edges dissolve, and what was sparked settles into something shared, carried forward into what comes next.
Exploring:
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:
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
Massif Tokyo & 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.
Schedule
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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.



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.




Massif Tokyo, located within Ohashi Kaikan in Meguro, is a restaurant, café, and bar shaped by Max Houtzager and Yuki Endo, in collaboration with Terrain, the team behind Parklet Bakery. Rooted in Japanese food culture and informed by global perspectives, its menu is guided by California-based chef Coleman Griffin, with a wine program curated by a former Noble Rot sommelier.
Within the Tokyo Salone constellation, Massif serves as a year-round site for exchange, hosting Moments and select Nourish chef pop-ups that bring members and invited guests into close proximity, a place where conversation settles in and relationships deepen over time.




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
Get Tickets
Tokyo Salone Flagship Conversations
Two days, ticketed event. Convening practitioners of design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, gastronomy, and culture, gathering in proximity.
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.
Nightshift Shakedown
Part of your passport, inclusive of Tokyo Salone, Flagship Conversations.
Nourish
Two days, ticketed event. A shared field. Where taste, time, and memory meet.
Shibuya, The Culture of Modern Luxury
One day. Invitation only. A carefully composed room.
Speculative Futures
One day, ticketed event. A shared room. Where futures are tested, not imagined.
Moments
Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.
Friends Of Exhibitions
Public or timed entry depending on venue.
Held in Sound
A two-hour, Kyoto listening experience. Curated by semi permanent × teenage engineering, presented by KCRW.
Thirdspace Thirdweeks, with Soho House
Members-first access with community ticket allocation.
constellations
SHIBUYA
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