Head offices
| Photo | Company | Address | Headquarters size |
|---|---|---|---|
 | NissanGlobal Headquarters | 1-1, Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-8686 | ≈ 991,377 sq ft (92,102 m²) |
 | OkamuraRegistered head office | Tenri Building 19F, 1-4-1 Kitasaiwai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-0004, Japan | 47,846 sq ft (4,445 m²) |
Sizes are the companies’ own figures, as shown on each profile with the source. “—” means the company does not publish one.
Other notable offices in Yokohama
Offices of companies headquartered elsewhere, from each company profile.
| Company | Office | Address |
|---|---|---|
| DeNAHeadquarters: Tokyo, Japan | Yokohama Arai Building office | Kannai Arai Building, 1-8 Onoe-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0015Source: dena.com access map (2026) |
| DeNAHeadquarters: Tokyo, Japan | Yokohama BASEGATE office | BASEGATE Yokohama Kannai Tower, 1-1-1 Minato-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0017Source: dena.com access map (2026) |
| Sony GroupHeadquarters: Tokyo, Japan | Sony City Minatomirai | 5-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-8750Source: sony.com Access & Map |
Yokohama in headquarters history
- 2025Nissan · Sold, and leased back
Under the Re:Nissan recovery plan, Nissan said in November 2025 that it was optimizing non-core assets, “including the sale and leaseback of Nissan's global headquarters in Yokohama”.
- 2021DeNA · WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square, plus Yokohama
With head-office attendance at 6% or less in March 2021, DeNA moved next door to WeWork Shibuya Scramble Square on August 10, 2021, cutting desks to about a quarter, and opened a second base on floors 5–6 of the Kannai Arai Building in Yokohama.
- 2013Atlassian · Yokohama and Manila
Offices opened in Yokohama, Japan and Manila, the Philippines.
- 2009Nissan · The Global Headquarters opens at Takashima
The 22-floor building at 1-1 Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku, by Yokohama Station, was completed in April and inaugurated in August 2009, with the public Nissan Global Headquarters Gallery on the ground floor.
- 2005Nissan · Decision to go home to Yokohama
In June 2005 Nissan announced it would move its global headquarters back to Yokohama. Takenaka Corporation designed the new building with Yoshio Taniguchi as design supervisor; Shimizu Corporation built it.
- 1973Okamura · Head office moves to the Yokohama Tenri Building
The head office moved to the Yokohama Tenri Building; the company's registered head office is still there today, on the 19th floor.
- 1955Bandai Namco · Nakamura Manufacturing, Ikegami, Ota-ku
Masaya Nakamura set up Nakamura Manufacturing — later Namco — in Ikegami, Ota-ku, with ¥300,000, and started with two mechanical horse rides on a Yokohama department-store roof. The same year Bandai built an office in Komagata 2-chome, Asakusa.
- 1946Nissan · Back to Yokohama
In January 1946 the headquarters returned to Yokohama.
- 1945Okamura · Founded in Okamura-cho, Yokohama
On October 10, 1945, aircraft engineers who had lost their jobs after the war pooled money, skills and labour to start Okamura Seisakusho, a “cooperative industry”, in Okamura-cho, Isogo-ku, Yokohama. They first made pots and pans, then steel furniture.
- 1934Nissan · Nissan Motor and the Yokohama Plant
The Yokohama Plant was completed in May 1934 and the company took the name Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. in June. The next year the first car built on its integrated assembly line rolled out — Japan's first automobile mass-production plant. The plant's address is still Nissan's registered head office.
- 1933Nissan · Founded in Yokohama, on reclaimed land
Tobata Casting set up an automobile division in March 1933 and in October bought more than 66,000 m² (≈ 710,000 sq ft) of reclaimed land at Shinkoyasu on the Yokohama coast — the site of today's Yokohama Plant. On December 26, 1933, Jidosha Seizo Co., Ltd., Nissan's predecessor, was established in Yokohama with Yoshisuke Aikawa as president.
- 1928Kirin Holdings · Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku — the new Yokohama brewery
The new Yokohama Brewery (today's Kirin Brewery Yokohama Plant) was completed in June 1926, and in April 1928 the registered head office moved to Namamugi, Tsurumi-ku. Kirin's beverage and packaging research institutes are still at 1-17-1 Namamugi.
Questions
Which big companies have their headquarters in Yokohama?
On eciffo, 2 of the biggest companies have their head office in Yokohama: Nissan and Okamura.
Which big companies have notable offices in Yokohama besides their headquarters?
DeNA (Yokohama Arai Building office, Kannai Arai Building, 1-8 Onoe-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0015); DeNA (Yokohama BASEGATE office, BASEGATE Yokohama Kannai Tower, 1-1-1 Minato-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0017); Sony Group (Sony City Minatomirai, 5-1-1 Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-8750).
What is the biggest company headquarters in Yokohama?
Of the head offices on eciffo, Nissan's Global Headquarters is the largest at ≈ 991,377 sq ft (92,102 m²), as reported by the company.