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Bridgestone Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Bridgestone · Tokyo, Japan
Bridgestone works from the top floors of a 24-storey Kyobashi tower whose lower floors rise as a planted “Kyobashi Hill” — in the same Tokyo district it first came to in 1939.
The tower, the benefits and 95 years of headquarters moves from a tabi-sock shop in Kurume — then the business. Every number from Bridgestone's own websites, ESG data and the architect's project page.
- Floors 22–24of Tokyo Square Garden
- 120days off a year (Japan)
- 15.8 yrsaverage tenure, 2025
- 115,716people worldwide
Sources: bridgestone.co.jp headquarters page and new-graduate job description · ESG data 2025 · bridgestone.com Corporate Profile (Dec 31, 2025)
Companies / Japan / Tires & Rubber / Bridgestone
THE HEADQUARTERS · TOKYO SQUARE GARDEN · 2013
The top floors of a tower with a green hill at its foot
Bridgestone moved into Tokyo Square Garden in late 2013 to strengthen business continuity and its global functions. Its offices are on the 22nd to 24th floors. Below, the building's lower floors step up from an underground station plaza to the 6th floor as a planted “Kyobashi Hill”, and a lost street of tatami makers, Tatami-cho-dori, runs through the building as a public passage.
- Floors 22–24
- Direct link to Kyobashi Station
- Design: Shimizu–Taisei
- Master plan: Nikken Sekkei–Nihon Sekkei
- Completed 2013
- BCS Prize · Good Design 2014
Tokyo Square Garden and the “Kyobashi Hill” terraces
The building's lower floors step up from an underground station plaza to the 6th floor as a planted “Kyobashi Hill”, with Bridgestone's offices on the 22nd to 24th floors.
The office lobby and the station-level plaza
Tokyo Square Garden has a direct link to Kyobashi Station, and its lower floors step up from an underground station plaza.
Facts: bridgestone.co.jp head office page · news releases Nov 27, 2012 and Oct 8, 2013 · Shimizu Corporation design division project page “Tokyo Square Garden” · Japan Federation of Construction Contractors, BCS Prize page
Kyobashi, Kodaira and Yokohama
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Head Office (Tokyo Square Garden, floors 22–24) | 1-1, Kyobashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8340, Japan |
| Technical Center / Tokyo AC Tire Plant (Bridgestone Innovation Park) | 3-1-1 Ogawahigashi-cho, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8531, Japan |
| Chemical & Industrial Products Technical Center / Yokohama Plant | 1 Kashio-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama 244-8510, Japan |
Source: bridgestone.co.jp “Head Office and Technical Center” page · bridgestone.com Corporate Profile · See them on the map ↓
Source: Shimizu Corporation design division project page “Tokyo Square Garden” (floor area is the whole mixed-use building, not Bridgestone's floors) · Bridgestone news release, Oct 8, 2013
Benefits (Japan, Bridgestone Corporation)
120 holidays a year with two-day weekends, plus Golden Week, summer and New Year breaks, paid leave from the first day and leave for family events.
A flextime system with no core hours; the standard day is 7.5 hours (9:00–17:30 at the head office).
Parents can shorten their working day by up to three hours. Telework and a re-hire system for people who left are also in place.
Company daycare centers at the Kodaira Technical Center / Tokyo AC Tire Plant and the Yokohama site, plus partner nurseries company-wide.
Leave until a child turns two (or the April 30 after 18 months, whichever is longer), with a monthly living allowance and loans from the employees' mutual-aid society.
Company apartments around Tokyo and near Kodaira, and dormitories for single employees in Yokohama and Kunitachi; home-purchase loans.
Three company retreats — one in Okutama, inside Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park, and two in Karuizawa.
An employee shareholding association plus payroll savings plans for housing, retirement and life events.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp careers — new-graduate job description (April 2027 intake), “Welfare” and “Diverse ways of working” pages
Why people stay: what Bridgestone itself reports
Average length of service at Bridgestone Corporation in 2025, up from 14.9 years in 2021. The average age is 42.1.
2025, up from 6.8% in 2021. 114 men also took the special leave for the weeks around a birth.
Average training and development hours per employee in 2025, up from 11.1 in 2021.
The “Genba 100-Day Challenge” lets employees raise their hand and spend 100 days investigating a problem on site — one engineer studied rubber farms and processing plants in Indonesia.
New graduates train from April to November before joining a team, including a visit to Kurume, where the company was founded, and to Bridgestone Innovation Park.
A training system called the “Human Resources Development College” runs from new hires to managers, with a self-development support program for each person's own goals.
Source: Bridgestone ESG data (social), 2021–2025 (Bridgestone Corporation regular employees) · bridgestone.co.jp careers pages “Genba 100-Day Challenge” and “Human resources development”
Who works here
people at Bridgestone Corporation itself
of leadership positions held by women, group-wide
women's pay as a share of men's at Bridgestone Corporation, 2025
Global Executive Committee members are non-Japanese
Source: Bridgestone ESG data (social and governance), 2025 · bridgestone.com Corporate Profile (Dec 31, 2025)
Office history: from a tabi shop in Kurume to a Kyobashi tower
- 1906 The “Shimaya” tailoring shop in Kurume
At 17, Shojiro Ishibashi took over his family's clothing business in Kurume, Fukuoka. He turned it into a tabi-sock maker, invented rubber-soled jika-tabi work shoes and used the profits to start making tires.
Source: bridgestone.com History, Bridgestone Story 1906–1930
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1931 Founded at 1 Araimachi, Kurume
On March 1, 1931 the tire division of Japan Tabi became Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd. Its head office stayed in the same place as Japan Tabi: 1 Araimachi, Kurume.
Source: bridgestone.com History 1931–1940 · bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story, ch. 3 sec. 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1934 Into the new Kurume plant, 105 Kyomachi
In January 1934, just before the first Kurume plant was finished, the head office moved to the plant site at 105 Kyomachi, Kurume.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story, ch. 3 sec. 2
Kurume plant, Kyomachi, Kurume (recent photo) · Soramimi / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1937 To Tokyo: Uchisaiwaicho
Shojiro Ishibashi felt Kurume was too far from the national and overseas markets. In May 1937 the head office moved to a building in Uchisaiwaicho, Kojimachi-ku (today's Chiyoda-ku), Tokyo.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story, ch. 3 sec. 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1939 Kyobashi, and a wartime fire
In 1939 the company bought land at 1-1 Kyobashi 1-chome. Its two-storey wooden head office there burned in an air raid on May 25, 1945, and staff moved to a temporary office in Azabu Iikura-katamachi (today's Roppongi).
Source: bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story, ch. 3 secs. 2–3
Wooden head office, Kyobashi, before 1945 · © Bridgestone Corporation - 1951 The Bridgestone Building, Kyobashi
In December 1951 the company returned to the burnt Kyobashi site with a nine-storey building, one of the tallest of its day, shared by the head office, the Tokyo branch and the Bridgestone Museum of Art.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story, ch. 4 sec. 2 · bridgestone.com History 1951–1960
Bridgestone Building, Kyobashi, 1951 · © Bridgestone Corporation - 2013 Tokyo Square Garden
Announced in November 2012 to strengthen business continuity and global functions, the move to floors 20–24 of Tokyo Square Garden, 1-1 Kyobashi 3-chome, took place department by department from November 5 to December 9, 2013. Today the head office occupies floors 22–24.
Source: Bridgestone news releases, Nov 27, 2012 and Oct 8, 2013 · bridgestone.co.jp head office page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From Kurume in Kyushu to Kyobashi in central Tokyo. Since buying land there in 1939, Bridgestone has kept its head office in the Kyobashi district except for the years after the 1945 air raid.
- 1 · 1934Kurume plant, 105 Kyomachi — Head office at the first plant site, Kurume, Fukuoka
- 2 · 1951Bridgestone Building, Kyobashi 1-chome — Nine-storey head office on the 1939 Kyobashi site
- 3 · 2013Tokyo Square Garden — 1-1 Kyobashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo — headquarters today
Addresses: bridgestone.co.jp Bridgestone Story and head office page · Locations: OpenStreetMap. Araimachi (1931) and Uchisaiwaicho (1937) are not on the map because no street-level address is published.
What Bridgestone does
Bridgestone started in 1931 making tires in Kurume with Japanese technology only. Today it sells tires for cars, trucks, buses, mining machines and aircraft around the world, plus other rubber products, and describes its goal as becoming “a sustainable solutions company” by 2050.
Four regional segments: Japan; Asia, Pacific, India & China; the Americas; and Europe, Middle East & Africa.
Where the money came from · Revenue by region, 2025 (before eliminations)
Source: Bridgestone IR Financial Data (segment revenue, FY2025). Regional figures include sales between regions, so they add up to more than the group total.
Source: Bridgestone IR Financial Data (consolidated, IFRS, fiscal year ended Dec 31, 2025) · Corporate Profile
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥3.34T → ¥4.43T
13,934 of them at Bridgestone Corporation itself
Calendar years, consolidated. Revenue in trillion yen: Bridgestone IR Financial Data. Employees: Corporate Profile (Dec 31, 2025); earlier headcounts are in securities reports we could not read. Multiple calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Global CEO and Representative Executive Officer since January 1, 2026. Joined Bridgestone in 1996 and led businesses in Thailand, China and Asia Pacific.
Global CEO until December 31, 2025.
Founder: Shojiro Ishibashi (1931).
Source: Bridgestone news release “Top Management Change”, Oct 23, 2025 · bridgestone.com Corporate Profile
Bridgestone: questions people ask
Where is Bridgestone's headquarters?
On the 22nd to 24th floors of Tokyo Square Garden, 1-1 Kyobashi 3-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8340, directly connected to Kyobashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line and about six minutes' walk from Tokyo Station's Yaesu South exit.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp head office page
When did Bridgestone move to Tokyo Square Garden?
Departments moved in between November 5 and December 9, 2013, after the move was announced in November 2012 to strengthen business continuity and global functions. Before that, the head office was the 1951 Bridgestone Building in Kyobashi 1-chome.
Source: Bridgestone news releases, Nov 27, 2012 and Oct 8, 2013
Who designed Bridgestone's headquarters building?
Tokyo Square Garden was designed and supervised by a Shimizu–Taisei joint venture, with city planning and basic design by a Nikken Sekkei–Nihon Sekkei joint venture. It was completed in 2013.
Source: Shimizu Corporation design division project page
How big is the building?
Tokyo Square Garden has 24 floors above ground and 4 below, with about 117,461 m² (≈ 1,264,000 sq ft) of floor space for the whole mixed-use building. Bridgestone uses floors 22–24.
Source: Shimizu project page · bridgestone.co.jp head office page
Where was Bridgestone founded?
In Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, on March 1, 1931, when founder Shojiro Ishibashi spun off the tire division of Japan Tabi. The head office moved to Tokyo in May 1937.
Source: bridgestone.com History · Bridgestone Story
Can you visit Bridgestone's headquarters?
The offices are not open to the public, but Tokyo Square Garden's lower floors hold shops, restaurants and the public green terraces of “Kyobashi Hill”. Bridgestone's showcase for visitors and partners is Bridgestone Innovation Park in Kodaira, opened in 2022.
Source: BCS Prize page · bridgestone.co.jp careers “Bridgestone Innovation Park”
What benefits does Bridgestone offer in Japan?
120 days off a year, flextime with no core hours, telework, shorter hours of up to three hours a day for parents, on-site daycare at Kodaira and Yokohama, company housing and dormitories, three company retreats and an employee shareholding association.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp careers pages
How many people work at Bridgestone?
115,716 people worldwide at the end of 2025, including 13,934 at Bridgestone Corporation. The largest share, 46,312, work in the Americas.
Source: Corporate Profile · ESG data 2025
What is the starting salary at Bridgestone?
For graduates joining in April 2027: ¥310,000 a month with a bachelor's degree, ¥345,000 with a master's and ¥385,600 with a doctorate, before allowances, with bonuses in June and December.
Source: bridgestone.co.jp new-graduate job description
Who is Bridgestone's CEO?
Yasuhiro Morita, Global CEO and Representative Executive Officer since January 1, 2026. He succeeded Shuichi Ishibashi.
Source: Bridgestone news release, Oct 23, 2025
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