Re:Drop-In Coworking Spaces in Tokyo
by mrkirkland on Thursday April 23, 2015 @12:37AM
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I emailed the terminal, but it bounced!
Also emailed opensource cafe, but no reply. We do mention them on a previous article though.
Jellyjelly either their contact form is broken or they didn't want to respond.
(all messages were sent in Japanese)
I'll see if I can get in touch with iioffice...
Do you know if it's pretty competitive to get the monthly membership at The Terminal? Only the first 10 people who sign up can get it right? ("毎月先着10名様となります。")
I haven't checked. Given it's 1295 yen a day after the 2000yen yearly membership I'd rather pay by the day. The month price is better after 12 days a month but I'd prefer to move around so I come at most probably 9 days a month and visit other places on other days.
I see, that makes sense. By the way, there's a burrito place 2-3 mins from there that I frequent:
https://ja-jp.facebook.com/burritastesgood
Staff and owner are very nice people, burritos are good, and they have a variety of hot sauces.
The Terminal - Harajuku (where I'm posting this from ;) http://theterminal.jp/about.html
ii Office - Ueno https://iioffice.liginc.co.jp/
Jelly Jelly Cafe - Shibuya http://jellyjellycafe.com/
Open Source Cafe - Shimokitazawa http://www.osscafe.net/en/
The Terminal is around ~$13 a day if you pay ~$20 for a year membership. Includes free soft drinks. Yea, just $20. Or you can get a monthly pass for ~$160
II Office is around ~$10 a day also including free soft drinks
Jelly Jelly is really tiny and the one time I went it was 100% full so I haven't actually used it.
Open Source Cafe is also pretty tiny. It's 2 small rooms, both hold maybe 7 people though I've seen them cram in 15+ for a meeting.
I've been to a few on the list
co-ba I signed up for a year ago. Plus, if you become a member they give you a security card and it's open 24 hours. Minus, it's pretty minimal, especially the 2nd floor. Feels like I sitting in an elementary school class.
kokemasaz feels like someone decorated their garage. Nice DIY vibe. The guy making Voxatron (http://voxatron.com) who goes by Zeb online says he sometimes hangs out there.
I guess I should mention he runs the picopico cafe (http://picopicocafe.com) in Kichijoji. It's only open 3pm to 10pm Saturday and Sunday and even then only if they haven't rented the place out (check their calendar) but, possibly because he's an indie game dev a lot of other mostly non Japanese indie game devs hang out there.
What kind of shocks me is how much more expensive co-working spaces are in SF and LA. They claim you'll get networking but they're usually > $500 a month for just an unassigned seat at an open table.