© Semi Permanent

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:

  • 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 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.

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

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:

  • 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

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:

  • 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 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:

  • The ideas, tensions, and connections that emerged across the month
  • What stays, and what begins to shift
  • How culture, technology, and community continue beyond the room
  • Cities, rituals, and the ways we gather with intention
  • Food, hospitality, and care as systems of continuity
  • A smaller circle, returning to listen more closely
  • From experience to stewardship, carrying forward what matters

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

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.

Soho House Tokyo

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

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

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.

Moments

Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.

Friends Of Exhibitions

Public or timed entry depending on venue.

COLLECTIVE

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Legal

Commercial Disclosure

Code of Conduct

privacy policy

Liability & Risk

Media Release

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© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE

© Semi Permanent

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:

  • 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 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.

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

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:

  • 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

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:

  • 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 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:

  • The ideas, tensions, and connections that emerged across the month
  • What stays, and what begins to shift
  • How culture, technology, and community continue beyond the room
  • Cities, rituals, and the ways we gather with intention
  • Food, hospitality, and care as systems of continuity
  • A smaller circle, returning to listen more closely
  • From experience to stewardship, carrying forward what matters

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

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.

Soho House Tokyo

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

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

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.

Moments

Ticketed or invitation-led depending on edition.

Friends Of Exhibitions

Public or timed entry depending on venue.

COLLECTIVE

yes,

Legal

Commercial Disclosure

Code of Conduct

privacy policy

Liability & Risk

Media Release

subscribe

Semi Permanent

© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE

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:

  • 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 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.

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

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:

  • 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

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:

  • 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 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:

  • The ideas, tensions, and connections that emerged across the month
  • What stays, and what begins to shift
  • How culture, technology, and community continue beyond the room
  • Cities, rituals, and the ways we gather with intention
  • Food, hospitality, and care as systems of continuity
  • A smaller circle, returning to listen more closely
  • From experience to stewardship, carrying forward what matters

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

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 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.

Soho House Tokyo

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

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

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

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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.

COLLECTIVE

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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

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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:

  • 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 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.

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

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:

  • 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

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:

  • 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 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:

  • The ideas, tensions, and connections that emerged across the month
  • What stays, and what begins to shift
  • How culture, technology, and community continue beyond the room
  • Cities, rituals, and the ways we gather with intention
  • Food, hospitality, and care as systems of continuity
  • A smaller circle, returning to listen more closely
  • From experience to stewardship, carrying forward what matters

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

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 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.

Soho House Tokyo

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

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

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.

COLLECTIVE

yes,

Legal

Commercial Disclosure

Code of Conduct

privacy policy

Liability & Risk

Media Release

subscribe

Semi Permanent

© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE