Linnas Design Inc.
Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
November 2025
Accommodation
Service with Significant Environmental Footprint
Japan
Linnas Design is a hospitality company founded in Kanazawa, Japan. We plan, design, and operate hotels and community-driven spaces that blend daily comfort with meaningful social connection. Our core business is creating places where like-minded individuals—travelers, remote workers, students, and local residents—can naturally interact and build community beyond differences in nationality, background, or language. We work in regions that are rich in both challenges and potential, in Japan and internationally. In each location, we collaborate with local partners, developers, and creative professionals to design spaces that respond to the character and needs of the area. Our projects range from mid-scale hotels and coliving concepts to renovated heritage buildings, coworking-integrated accommodations, and lifestyle-driven hospitality hubs. Across all developments, we focus on shaping environments that are comfortable for longer stays, encourage cultural exchange, and bring new energy into the local scene. By integrating hospitality, community programming, and thoughtful spatial design, Linnas Design seeks to create sustainable business value while contributing to the revitalization and long-term vibrancy of the regions we work in.
Overall B Impact Score
Governance 8.2
Governance evaluates a company's overall mission, engagement around its social/environmental impact, ethics, and transparency. This section also evaluates the ability of a company to protect their mission and formally consider stakeholders in decision making through their corporate structure (e.g. benefit corporation) or corporate governing documents.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Workers 29.3
Workers evaluates a company’s contributions to its employees’ financial security, health & safety, wellness, career development, and engagement & satisfaction. In addition, this section recognizes business models designed to benefit workers, such as companies that are at least 40% owned by non-executive employees and those that have workforce development programs to support individuals with barriers to employment.
What is this? A company with an Impact Business Model is intentionally designed to create a specific positive outcome for one of its stakeholders - such as workers, community, environment, or customers.
Community 19.1
Community evaluates a company’s engagement with and impact on the communities in which it operates, hires from, and sources from. Topics include diversity, equity & inclusion, economic impact, civic engagement, charitable giving, and supply chain management. In addition, this section recognizes business models that are designed to address specific community-oriented problems, such as poverty alleviation through fair trade sourcing or distribution via microenterprises, producer cooperative models, locally focused economic development, and formal charitable giving commitments.
Environment 24.8
Environment evaluates a company’s overall environmental management practices as well as its impact on the air, climate, water, land, and biodiversity. This includes the direct impact of a company’s operations and, when applicable its supply chain and distribution channels. This section also recognizes companies with environmentally innovative production processes and those that sell products or services that have a positive environmental impact. Some examples might include products and services that create renewable energy, reduce consumption or waste, conserve land or wildlife, provide less toxic alternatives to the market, or educate people about environmental problems.
Customers 3.5
Customers evaluates a company’s stewardship of its customers through the quality of its products and services, ethical marketing, data privacy and security, and feedback channels. In addition, this section recognizes products or services that are designed to address a particular social problem for or through its customers, such as health or educational products, arts & media products, serving underserved customers/clients, and services that improve the social impact of other businesses or organizations.