Free/Low-Cost Coworking Spaces, Labs and Commercial Real Estate for Offices

Beyond paid office rental, several free or discounted workspace options were discussed. Tokyo Innovation Base (TiB) is a free coworking space near Ginza for startups, including the TiB Fab hardware lab whose equipment has reportedly enabled several startups in the community to exist; Kernel is a coworking space run by VC Deepcore aimed at AI startups; and Tokyo Hackerspace is an independent makerspace. Open university campuses are used by some founders as free workspace, with Chuo University cited as an example, including its inexpensive student cafeteria (around 500 yen per meal). Izumonomad is a coworking space in Izumo connected to a local web-development studio that also helps recruit developers from the CIS for Japanese companies. Beyond Next Ventures runs an incubator for biolabs, Tokyo Bioclub is a community lab for biotech projects with an associated Telegram chat, and kitchenbase.jp is a cloud kitchen letting food-delivery businesses launch without renting a full restaurant space. For paid office search, dedicated agencies rent small offices suited for company registration and visa purposes in central Tokyo (from roughly 24,000 yen/month) and are known to be willing to rent to foreigners, which matters when looking for a registered address for a Business Manager visa; general real-estate aggregators cover both residential and commercial listings, with some working better with foreign tenants than others, and dedicated platforms exist specifically for commercial/office listings, monthly furnished rentals, virtual offices, and a guide to running a legal Airbnb business in Japan. Source: https://tib.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/tibfab — Tokyo Innovation Base — free coworking space with the TiB Fab hardware lab. Source: https://www.tokyohackerspace.jp/ — Tokyo Hackerspace — independent makerspace. Source: https://beyondnextventures.com/jp/incubation/beyondbiolabtokyo/ — Beyond Next Ventures — biolab incubator. Source: https://bioclub.tokyo/en/about/ — Tokyo Bioclub — community lab for biotech projects. Source: https://kitchenbase.jp — kitchenbase.jp — cloud kitchen for food-delivery businesses. Source: https://www.hello-office.net/ — office search service for company registration in Shibuya's Udagawacho area. Source: https://www.tensho-office.com/chiyoda_chuo/kyobashi/ — low-cost mini-offices for visa/company registration in central Tokyo. Source: https://suumo.jp/b/chintai/kw/オフィス%E3%80%80賃貸/ — general real-estate aggregator covering commercial listings. Source: https://www.good-monthly.com/search/list_eki.html?eki_cd=750 — monthly furnished-rental listings site. Source: https://www.rethinktokyo.com/2018/06/13/how-legally-host-airbnb-japan-guide — guide to running a legal Airbnb business in Japan. Source: https://www.homes.co.jp/ — commercial real-estate/office search platform. Source: https://www.pmo-web.com — commercial real-estate/office search platform. Source: https://rentaloffice-search.jp/ — office rental search platform. Source: https://www.athome.co.jp/rent_office/tokyo/map/list/ — office rental search platform. Source: https://www.gmo-office.com/ — virtual office service for registering a business address without physical presence.