2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN'S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced over 50 gatherings across 13 cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, and culture. Tokyo Salone is the next evolution of that platform, purpose-built for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s first truly global, design-led cultural gathering.
It convenes our international alum community alongside regional and domestic leaders across architecture, design, mobility, technology, film, gastronomy, and music. Programming is curated for meaningful exchange, not exhibition, through conversations, salons, commissions, workshops, and city-wide activations.
The rationale is clear.
Japan holds extraordinary creative talent, yet lacks a single, recurring platform where domestic and international voices engage across disciplines with scale, credibility, and continuity. Tokyo Salone exists to connect Japan’s creative industries to global networks, audiences, and opportunity.
Our focus is long-term cultural value.
Tokyo Salone supports the next generation of creators through visibility, context, and access. Each edition is a considered contribution, shaped by the belief that creativity is both inheritance and horizon, strengthening Japan’s ecosystem while extending its influence outward.
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 talent is actively seeking global exchange.
What is missing is a contemporary platform that connects these forces with clarity and intent.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Share real creative journeys, including process, risk, and failure, to accelerate professional growth.
integrate
Integrate design, culture, technology, mobility, gastronomy, architecture, anime, and craftspersonship within a single curated ecosystem.
connect
Act as a pathfinding and connecting platform for emerging talent across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Establish Japan as the region’s reference point for future-facing cultural and creative 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.
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 within a year-round cultural platform including Moments, Nourish, Friends Of, Future Of, Speculative Futures, Nightshift Shakedown, and Thirdspace Thirdweeks. The annual autumn gathering serves as a culmination, not a standalone moment.
An Intimate, Premium Environment
Held at the Tokyo American Club, Tokyo Salone offers a secure and architecturally significant setting designed for focused exchange among senior cultural, creative, and industry leaders.
2026 program
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
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 week, Nourish offers a slower, more deliberate cadence within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons around the table to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practices across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and community
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as culinary intelligence
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Soho House Tokyo
November 22, 2026
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of climate, technology, creativity, 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
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED.
2026 Schedule
Full program details will be released in thoughtful phases.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long stood as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home in Azabudai Hills, the Club brings together members from more than 60 nations.
With deep ties to diplomacy, business, and cultural life across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, it offers a setting where history, architecture, and contemporary dialogue converge with quiet authority. For Tokyo Salone, it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum, a place where global and domestic voices meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Opening in April 2026 in Aoyama, Soho House Tokyo continues that lineage within one of the city’s most design-conscious neighborhoods.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion. Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, it supports experimentation, workshops, and early-stage exchange.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of curators, cultural practitioners, industry leaders, and strategists, supported by an international advisory board spanning design, technology, innovation, mobility, gastronomy, and narrative culture.
It is structured not as a one-off event, but as an ongoing act of cultural stewardship, guided by clear curatorial standards and a long-term responsibility to future creative generations.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is seeking a small group of founding partners to help shape Japan’s first global, design-led cultural platform. Partnerships are structured as long-term collaborations focused on co-authorship, category leadership, and measurable cultural impact.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway. To explore partnership alignment, please contact:
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
The wait is part of the seduction
Tickets for Tokyo Salone, Nourish, Speculative Futures, and Moments will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
詳細は2026年春に公開予定です。 静かに、その時をお待ちください。
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© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
tokyo salone
2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN'S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced over 50 gatherings across 13 cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, and culture. Tokyo Salone is the next evolution of that platform, purpose-built for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s first truly global, design-led cultural gathering.
It convenes our international alum community alongside regional and domestic leaders across architecture, design, mobility, technology, film, gastronomy, and music. Programming is curated for meaningful exchange, not exhibition, through conversations, salons, commissions, workshops, and city-wide activations.
The rationale is clear.
Japan holds extraordinary creative talent, yet lacks a single, recurring platform where domestic and international voices engage across disciplines with scale, credibility, and continuity. Tokyo Salone exists to connect Japan’s creative industries to global networks, audiences, and opportunity.
Our focus is long-term cultural value.
Tokyo Salone supports the next generation of creators through visibility, context, and access. Each edition is a considered contribution, shaped by the belief that creativity is both inheritance and horizon, strengthening Japan’s ecosystem while extending its influence outward.
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 talent is actively seeking global exchange.
What is missing is a contemporary platform that connects these forces with clarity and intent.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Share real creative journeys, including process, risk, and failure, to accelerate professional growth.
integrate
Integrate design, culture, technology, mobility, gastronomy, architecture, anime, and craftspersonship within a single curated ecosystem.
connect
Act as a pathfinding and connecting platform for emerging talent across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Establish Japan as the region’s reference point for future-facing cultural and creative 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.
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 within a year-round cultural platform including Moments, Nourish, Friends Of, Future Of, Speculative Futures, Nightshift Shakedown, and Thirdspace Thirdweeks. The annual autumn gathering serves as a culmination, not a standalone moment.
An Intimate, Premium Environment
Held at the Tokyo American Club, Tokyo Salone offers a secure and architecturally significant setting designed for focused exchange among senior cultural, creative, and industry leaders.
2026 program
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
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 week, Nourish offers a slower, more deliberate cadence within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons around the table to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practices across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and community
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as culinary intelligence
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Soho House Tokyo
November 22, 2026
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of climate, technology, creativity, 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
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED.
2026 Schedule
Full program details will be released in thoughtful phases.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long stood as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home in Azabudai Hills, the Club brings together members from more than 60 nations.
With deep ties to diplomacy, business, and cultural life across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, it offers a setting where history, architecture, and contemporary dialogue converge with quiet authority. For Tokyo Salone, it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum, a place where global and domestic voices meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Opening in April 2026 in Aoyama, Soho House Tokyo continues that lineage within one of the city’s most design-conscious neighborhoods.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion. Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, it supports experimentation, workshops, and early-stage exchange.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of curators, cultural practitioners, industry leaders, and strategists, supported by an international advisory board spanning design, technology, innovation, mobility, gastronomy, and narrative culture.
It is structured not as a one-off event, but as an ongoing act of cultural stewardship, guided by clear curatorial standards and a long-term responsibility to future creative generations.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is seeking a small group of founding partners to help shape Japan’s first global, design-led cultural platform. Partnerships are structured as long-term collaborations focused on co-authorship, category leadership, and measurable cultural impact.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway. To explore partnership alignment, please contact:
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
The wait is part of the seduction
Tickets for Tokyo Salone, Nourish, Speculative Futures, and Moments will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
詳細は2026年春に公開予定です。 静かに、その時をお待ちください。
subscribe for updates
Legal
Terms & conditions
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
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© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
tokyo salone
2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN'S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced over 50 gatherings across 13 cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, and culture. Tokyo Salone is the next evolution of that platform, purpose-built for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s first truly global, design-led cultural gathering.
It convenes our international alum community alongside regional and domestic leaders across architecture, design, mobility, technology, film, gastronomy, and music. Programming is curated for meaningful exchange, not exhibition, through conversations, salons, commissions, workshops, and city-wide activations.
The rationale is clear.
Japan holds extraordinary creative talent, yet lacks a single, recurring platform where domestic and international voices engage across disciplines with scale, credibility, and continuity. Tokyo Salone exists to connect Japan’s creative industries to global networks, audiences, and opportunity.
Our focus is long-term cultural value.
Tokyo Salone supports the next generation of creators through visibility, context, and access. Each edition is a considered contribution, shaped by the belief that creativity is both inheritance and horizon, strengthening Japan’s ecosystem while extending its influence outward.
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 talent is actively seeking global exchange.
What is missing is a contemporary platform that connects these forces with clarity and intent.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Share real creative journeys, including process, risk, and failure, to accelerate professional growth.
integrate
Integrate design, culture, technology, mobility, gastronomy, architecture, anime, and craftspersonship within a single curated ecosystem.
connect
Act as a pathfinding and connecting platform for emerging talent across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Establish Japan as the region’s reference point for future-facing cultural and creative 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.
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 within a year-round cultural platform including Moments, Nourish, Friends Of, Future Of, Speculative Futures, Nightshift Shakedown, and Thirdspace Thirdweeks. The annual autumn gathering serves as a culmination, not a standalone moment.
An Intimate, Premium Environment
Held at the Tokyo American Club, Tokyo Salone offers a secure and architecturally significant setting designed for focused exchange among senior cultural, creative, and industry leaders.
2026 program
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
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 week, Nourish offers a slower, more deliberate cadence within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons around the table to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practices across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and community
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as culinary intelligence
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Soho House Tokyo
November 22, 2026
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of climate, technology, creativity, 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
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED.
2026 Schedule
Full program details will be released in thoughtful phases.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long stood as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home in Azabudai Hills, the Club brings together members from more than 60 nations.
With deep ties to diplomacy, business, and cultural life across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, it offers a setting where history, architecture, and contemporary dialogue converge with quiet authority. For Tokyo Salone, it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum, a place where global and domestic voices meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Opening in April 2026 in Aoyama, Soho House Tokyo continues that lineage within one of the city’s most design-conscious neighborhoods.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion. Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, it supports experimentation, workshops, and early-stage exchange.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of curators, cultural practitioners, industry leaders, and strategists, supported by an international advisory board spanning design, technology, innovation, mobility, gastronomy, and narrative culture.
It is structured not as a one-off event, but as an ongoing act of cultural stewardship, guided by clear curatorial standards and a long-term responsibility to future creative generations.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is seeking a small group of founding partners to help shape Japan’s first global, design-led cultural platform. Partnerships are structured as long-term collaborations focused on co-authorship, category leadership, and measurable cultural impact.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway. To explore partnership alignment, please contact:
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
The wait is part of the seduction
Tickets for Tokyo Salone, Nourish, Speculative Futures, and Moments will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
詳細は2026年春に公開予定です。 静かに、その時をお待ちください。
subscribe for updates
Legal
Terms & conditions
Code of Conduct
privacy policy
Liability & Risk
Media Release
subscribe
© Semi Permanent / TOKYO SALONE
tokyo salone
2026
A Vision for The Future
未来への展望
NOV 11–DEC 10 2026, Tokyo Japan
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s global, design-led cultural gathering, convening international and domestic creative leaders to shape future-facing culture through dialogue, craftspersonship, and collaboration.
BECOME A partner
get tickets
20+
Days
30+
Keynotes
40+
Speakers
15+
Workshops
1200+
Attendees
JAPAN'S CREATIVE PLATFORM for Creative Futures
Tokyo Salone builds on more than two decades of Semi Permanent’s global cultural legacy.
Since 2002, Semi Permanent has produced over 50 gatherings across 13 cities, convening world-class voices across design, architecture, art, technology, film, music, and culture. Tokyo Salone is the next evolution of that platform, purpose-built for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
Tokyo Salone is Japan’s first truly global, design-led cultural gathering.
It convenes our international alum community alongside regional and domestic leaders across architecture, design, mobility, technology, film, gastronomy, and music. Programming is curated for meaningful exchange, not exhibition, through conversations, salons, commissions, workshops, and city-wide activations.
The rationale is clear.
Japan holds extraordinary creative talent, yet lacks a single, recurring platform where domestic and international voices engage across disciplines with scale, credibility, and continuity. Tokyo Salone exists to connect Japan’s creative industries to global networks, audiences, and opportunity.
Our focus is long-term cultural value.
Tokyo Salone supports the next generation of creators through visibility, context, and access. Each edition is a considered contribution, shaped by the belief that creativity is both inheritance and horizon, strengthening Japan’s ecosystem while extending its influence outward.
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 talent is actively seeking global exchange.
What is missing is a contemporary platform that connects these forces with clarity and intent.
Tokyo Salone exists to:
Convene
Bring leading global practitioners and Japan’s next generation of creators into meaningful, cross-disciplinary dialogue.
share
Share real creative journeys, including process, risk, and failure, to accelerate professional growth.
integrate
Integrate design, culture, technology, mobility, gastronomy, architecture, anime, and craftspersonship within a single curated ecosystem.
connect
Act as a pathfinding and connecting platform for emerging talent across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.
establish
Establish Japan as the region’s reference point for future-facing cultural and creative 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.
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 privileges informed exchange over parallel discussion.
Global x Domestic Exchange
Internationally recognized leaders, many engaging deeply with Japan for the first time, enter into dialogue with emerging Japanese talent. The emphasis is on mentorship, learning, and durable professional connection.
An Ecosystem, Not a One-Off Event
Tokyo Salone operates within a year-round cultural platform including Moments, Nourish, Friends Of, Future Of, Speculative Futures, Nightshift Shakedown, and Thirdspace Thirdweeks. The annual autumn gathering serves as a culmination, not a standalone moment.
An Intimate, Premium Environment
Held at the Tokyo American Club, Tokyo Salone offers a secure and architecturally significant setting designed for focused exchange among senior cultural, creative, and industry leaders.
2026 program
FLAGSHIP CONVERSATIONS
Tokyo American Club
November 11–13, 2026
Three days of considered keynotes and generous dialogue, bringing together global and domestic voices to explore how culture, creativity, and industry move forward together.
Exploring:
- The future of design resilience
- Cultural curation with and for communities
- Mobility engineering and movement systems
- Storytelling ecosystems across anime, film, and games
- Gastronomy as creative and regenerative practice
- Climate futures and collective responsibility
- Failure as creative intelligence
NIGHTSHIFT SHAKEDOWN
Azabudai
November 11, 2026
A rare after-dark encounter with Japan’s JDM and mobility culture. Curated with Dino Dalle Carbonare, Nightshift Shakedown brings heritage, engineering, and street-level passion into focused cultural exchange.
WORKSHOPS + TALENT LABS
Hands-on sessions designed for depth, experimentation, and skill-sharing. These labs are intimate and practitioner-led, grounded in applied knowledge.
Focused on:
- Creative leadership
- AI, robotics, and physical intelligence
- Gastronomy and culinary innovation
- Filmmaking and visual storytelling
- Mobility engineering
- The business architecture of creativity
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 week, Nourish offers a slower, more deliberate cadence within the wider cultural program. It convenes chefs, producers, thinkers, and patrons around the table to ask more rigorous questions together.
Exploring:
- Gastronomy as culture, craftspersonship, and living system
- Food as memory, identity, and ritual
- Regenerative practices across land, sea, and kitchen
- Fermentation, preservation, and time as creative collaborators
- Culinary innovation through science, tradition, and intuition
- Hospitality as care, generosity, and community
- Climate-aware cuisine and responsible sourcing
- Failure and humility as culinary intelligence
SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Soho House Tokyo
November 22, 2026
Speculative Futures invites participants to prototype possible futures at the intersection of climate, technology, creativity, 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
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED.
2026 Schedule
Full program details will be released in thoughtful phases.
featuring
Sensory Inquiry
Nourish
Applied Foresight
Speculative Futures
Precision Pulse
Nightshift Shakedown
venues
Tokyo American Club & Azabudai Hills
Founded in 1928, the Tokyo American Club has long stood as a crossroads for international exchange in the city. Now housed in its landmark Pelli Clarke Pelli–designed home in Azabudai Hills, the Club brings together members from more than 60 nations.
With deep ties to diplomacy, business, and cultural life across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, it offers a setting where history, architecture, and contemporary dialogue converge with quiet authority. For Tokyo Salone, it becomes not simply a venue, but a forum, a place where global and domestic voices meet in considered exchange.
Founded in London in 1995 as a discreet refuge for creative minds, Soho House has grown into a global network grounded in culture and connection. Opening in April 2026 in Aoyama, Soho House Tokyo continues that lineage within one of the city’s most design-conscious neighborhoods.
Surrounded by Omotesando’s boutiques, museums, and the layered energy of Harajuku, it offers an intimate setting for dialogue, collaboration, and year-round gatherings within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem.
Midori.so is a constellation of community-driven workspaces conceived as modern salons for Tokyo’s creative class. Founded by Teruo Kurosaki and operated by MIRAI-INSTITUTE, it began in Nakameguro as a gathering place for independent thinkers and emerging talent.
Rooted in curiosity and openness, Midori.so encourages chance encounters and slow collaboration, offering a quieter rhythm within the city’s constant motion. Within the Tokyo Salone ecosystem, it supports experimentation, workshops, and early-stage exchange.
Shaped by Creative Leaders Across Industry
Tokyo Salone is curated and delivered through a global network of curators, cultural practitioners, industry leaders, and strategists, supported by an international advisory board spanning design, technology, innovation, mobility, gastronomy, and narrative culture.
It is structured not as a one-off event, but as an ongoing act of cultural stewardship, guided by clear curatorial standards and a long-term responsibility to future creative generations.
Partnering with tokyo salone
Tokyo Salone is seeking a small group of founding partners to help shape Japan’s first global, design-led cultural platform. Partnerships are structured as long-term collaborations focused on co-authorship, category leadership, and measurable cultural impact.
Founding partner conversations for 2026 are now underway. To explore partnership alignment, please contact:
Founding partner inquiry
tickets
The wait is part of the seduction
Tickets for Tokyo Salone, Nourish, Speculative Futures, and Moments will open in phases, unfolding slowly and intentionally. Each gathering is limited, curated, and designed to be experienced live, together.
詳細は2026年春に公開予定です。 静かに、その時をお待ちください。
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