Web Development Agency in Tokyo

No. Our studios are in London (HQ) and Los Angeles. We don't have a physical presence in Tokyo and we won't pretend otherwise. What we do have is a deliberate remote delivery process built for JST overlap. Our LA team's afternoon (1–6 PM PST) maps to your Tokyo morning (6–11 AM JST). We run async handoffs through that window and schedule live calls there. We've shipped production sites for Tokyo-based clients this way, and the feedback cycle is tighter than most people expect from a non-local agency.

Our LA studio's working afternoon overlaps with Tokyo's morning. That gives us a 4–5 hour live window every weekday for calls, screen shares, and real-time code reviews. Outside that window, we work async — you'll get a written update with screenshots or Loom recordings before your day starts. Our London team adds a second overlap window in the early JST evening if needed. It's not the same as sitting in the same room, but for code-heavy projects, async often works better anyway.

Yes, and we insist on it. One of the biggest mistakes we see is agencies building with English placeholder content and dropping in Japanese text at the end. Japanese characters have different pixel widths, different line-break rules (kinsoku shori), and different font loading characteristics. If you don't design and test with real Japanese content from the start, you end up with broken layouts at launch. We integrate your Japanese copy into component builds starting in week two.

CJK font files are massive — Noto Sans JP can be 4MB+ unsubsetted. We use unicode-range subsetting to load only the character sets each page needs, combine that with font-display: swap and preload hints for above-the-fold text, and test LCP specifically with Japanese heading content. The goal is Lighthouse 95+ on mobile with real Japanese fonts rendered, not with system fallbacks hiding the problem.

That's one of the most common briefs we get from Tokyo clients. We set up proper /ja/ and /en/ path structures with correct hreflang annotations, separate sitemaps per language, and canonical tags that prevent Google from treating your English and Japanese pages as duplicates. We also make sure structured data (JSON-LD) is generated in the correct language per path — a detail most agencies miss that affects rich snippet eligibility in Google Japan.

Most projects fall between ¥1.5M and ¥30M depending on scope. A bilingual marketing site for a B2B SaaS company is usually in the ¥3M–¥8M range. A full ecommerce build with Japanese-character SEO, performance engineering, and CMS integration runs ¥8M–¥20M. We scope everything in writing before work starts — no ambiguous estimates. We invoice in GBP or USD from our London entity, but we're happy to quote in JPY for budgeting purposes.