Focus Mates Tokyo

Name: Saturday Motivational Productivity session! 💪 💻 📚
Start: 2026-10-03T02:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-10-03T08:30:00.000Z
Location: Daily Yamazaki Convenience Store

5.0•7 ratings

About us

Focus mates is a group for anyone working towards their goals, finds the “body doubling” focus method effective, and/or just wants a healthy dose of accountability (peer pressure!) to unlock your best work and achieve those goals!

Our group isn’t only limited to study. We welcome anyone aiming toward professional certification(s), but also anyone working on career (or side hustle!) goals and wanting to study/co-work together with other likeminded people.

Examples of group members’ goals have included:
• PMP (Project Management Professional)
• JLPT N2/N1 (Japanese)
• DELE B1~C2 (Spanish)
• Certifications like CSM, CAPM, CBAP, CPA/CFA, PHR/SPHR etc
• Various Coding, App or Web Dev Languages
• AI and LLM Developing
• Grant/Business Plan/Venture Capital Pitch Writing
…and more!

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ABOUT THE FOCUS SESSIONS

The group’s aim is to bring together people from diverse backgrounds for “serious” focus sessions, with the deliberately in-person “body-doubling” format that is extremely effective! It also gives us opportunities for networking, idea exchange, second-language practice etc during the breaks.

Introverts, extroverts, everyone in between - members can be as involved (or not!) in any break-time chats as they like. But our primary aim will always be to unlock serious focus and productivity, and help you get sh*t done.

Please Note: taking opportunities before/after & in breaks to network, discuss ideas etc is 100% encouraged - it’s a nice side-benefit of our in-person format. But session schedules are carefully set to ensure plenty of focused work/study gets done during every session.  Thanks for your cooperation in this.

So join us, get in the zone, and be held accountable to your session aims and goals by a super friendly group of other professionals with a similar mindset!

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ABOUT THE LOCATION

We’re lucky to have a wonderful light-filled space in Ariake with a fantastic view over all of Tokyo Bay and the Rainbow Bridge for our meetups. And if weather is nice and participants are keen, there’s also a spacious outdoor terrace we can sit at too.

Lunch, snacks and drinks can be purchased at the quiet cafe attached, or you can bring your own food/drink. Microwaves are available. The study area cafe sells various freshly baked goods, fresh salads, hot meals and hot/cold drinks (soft/alcohol). Or grab something from the combini or supermarket that’s right nearby.

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OTHER DETAILS

Meetups are kept very low-cost, we only ask for “pay-what-you-feel” donations to try to cover some of meetup.com’s very expensive annual organizer fee.

Occasional special “Study & Sweat” events are scheduled, so keep an eye out for announcements!  These are at a small extra cost for use of the gym/bath.

Focusmates is an inclusive group - all welcome! LGBTQ+, any nationality, language, folks with a disability etc - bigotry/discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. The area we study is accessibility-friendly, but if you use a wheelchair, please notify organizers in advance so we can do our best to accommodate your needs with regards to the meeting point, arrangement for toilet access etc.

Featured event

Sunday Motivational Productivity session! 💪 💻 📚

Sun, Aug 23 · 11:30 AM JST

Daily Yamazaki Convenience Store, Ariake 1-4-11 1F, Tokyo, JP

I’ll be hosting regular weekend sessions at least 2-3 times a month from now on, hopefully more. If there’s enough interest, I will look at hosting weekday evening sessions as well. I hope to see many people joining to get some work/study done in a very enjoyable and super focused way!

So let’s get together and be productive and work on our goals in the company of other motivated people (or especially those needing a bit of extra motivation through peer-pressure lol)! 💪

We use a modified “pomodoro” style schedule of timed focus sessions with short breaks between rounds. Usually 25-5 mins or 50-10 mins depending on preference of the day’s participants.

To start, everyone introduces themselves and states to the group what they want to achieve for the day’s whole session and their specific goal(s) for the first focus round. Then during each break between rounds, we say how we did on that focus period and what we want to get done in the next one. If the session is scheduled over lunch or dinner time, we will take a brief meal break as well.

Our sessions are held on the 33F in a lovely bright and airy space with plenty of tables, chairs and a quiet cafe. It has floor to ceiling windows and an absolutely EPIC view over all of Tokyo Bay and Rainbow Bridge.

The attached cafe has very reasonably priced fresh-cooked meals (pizza, pasta, salads, “one plate” rice + protein), a variety of healthy fresh-cooked bentos, snacks, drinks (alcoholic/non-alcoholic), plus a cheap hot coffee machine. There’s a free microwave to heat food, and free water. Or you prefer, you can BYO food/drinks or buy from downstairs at our Daily Yamazaki store meeting point beforehand as well.

Please note, laptop charging points are limited, so if you know you’ll definitely need one (eg. if you have a laptop with a short battery life) please tell me in advance and I’ll try to secure one of the tables with access to charging.

Let’s get Focused!!! 💪😁