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Honda Headquarters & offices · Tokyo, Japan
Honda · Tokyo, Japan
Honda now runs its head office on a single open floor — and in 2029 it moves back to the Tokyo Station block where its first own building stood.
The Toranomon office, the Aoyama Building that served for 39 years, the benefits in Japan and every head-office move since a wooden workshop in Hamamatsu — then the business. Every number from Honda's own website, careers site, human-capital data and Form 20-F, plus the tower's architects.
- 1 floorthe head office's “one-floor” layout in Toranomon (since May 2025)
- 6.8×bigger office floors at Yaesu (2029) than at Aoyama
- 121days off a year (Japan)
- 21.6 yrsaverage tenure in Japan, FY2026
Sources: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · Honda careers site (2026) · Honda human capital data (FY ended Mar 31, 2026)
Companies / Japan / Automobiles & Motorcycles / Honda
TODAY'S HEAD OFFICE · TORANOMON ALCEA TOWER · SINCE MAY 2025
A head office on one floor, while the next one is built
In May 2025 Honda moved its head office functions out of the Aoyama Building, which is being rebuilt, into Toranomon Alcea Tower (and the Honda Wako Building). In Toranomon everyone works in one space on one floor instead of across many floors; Honda says this has strengthened ties and made its “Waigaya” discussions livelier. In the same tower, Honda Software Studio Tokyo brings together about 1,100 software people: a pure-white entrance with only the red Honda logo, furniture curved like a highway clothoid, and a big table cut from a cherry tree felled at Honda's Tochigi research site.
- One-floor office layout
- ≈ 1,000 free-address seats for 1,200 people (Software Studio)
- Booths: SEED SOLO, DUO, TRIO
- “GARAGE” for virtual cars
- Tower: 38 floors, completed Feb 2025
- Next: Yaesu, 2029
Toranomon Alcea Tower
Since May 2025 Honda's head office has been in Toranomon Alcea Tower, designed by Nihon Sekkei and Taisei Corporation, while Aoyama is rebuilt.
Facts: Honda news release (Aug 29, 2025) · Honda SDV R&D Center site, “Tokyo | Toranomon” and article of Aug 17, 2026 · Nihon Sekkei and Taisei Corporation project pages for Toranomon Alcea Tower.
Toranomon today, Yaesu next
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Toranomon office (head office & Honda Software Studio Tokyo) | Toranomon Alcea Tower, 2-2-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8404 |
| Honda Wako Building (head office functions) | 8-1 Honcho, Wako, Saitama 351-0188 |
| Future global head office (planned 2029) | Yaesu 2-Chome Central District redevelopment, 4–7 Yaesu 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo |
Source: Form 20-F 2026 cover · Honda careers site, Locations · Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · See them on the map ↓
Source: Nihon Sekkei and Taisei Corporation project pages “Toranomon Alcea Tower” · Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 (Yaesu). Honda leases floors in the tower; its own floor area is not published.
Office tour videos
Benefits (Japan)
Two-day weekends on the company calendar, plus long breaks at Golden Week, summer and New Year.
Granted by length of service; employees took 17.2 days on average in FY2026. Ten days from the second month after joining.
Leave until the April after a child turns three, plus up to 4 weeks for partners within 8 weeks of the birth. 952 men took childcare leave in FY2026.
A month for each dependent child under 18; the same for each family member who needs care.
A 1DK company flat costs about ¥8,000–15,000 a month; singles' dormitories and rent support too.
Honda adds a 5–10% incentive to what employees put into the employee shareholding association.
Up to 5 days off a year, or up to 6 months' leave, plus cafeteria-plan points toward treatment costs.
Permanent daycare at the Tochigi and Saitama sites, from 57 days old until school age.
Source: Honda careers site, Benefits and Work styles pages (2026) · Honda human capital data FY2026 (leave taken, childcare leave)
Why people stay: what Honda itself reports
Fewer than 2 in 100 employees in Japan left of their own accord (3.6% including retirements).
Up from 20.7 years in FY2024; the average age is 43.7.
First-year retention of new-graduate hires in FY2026.
Positive answers in the FY2026 associate survey (46% in FY2025); the target is 65% or more by 2031.
Honda's own culture of open debate about dreams and how work should be, regardless of age or position.
Career interviews and internal challenge postings, plus 400+ e-learning courses free to use.
Source: Honda human capital data (FY ended Mar 31, 2026) · Honda Stories “Honda Aoyama Building” (2025) · Honda careers site, Benefits and Work styles pages
Who works here
full-time employees worldwide (Mar 31, 2026)
average age in Japan
of managers worldwide are women
of new hires in Japan were experienced (mid-career) hires, FY2026
Source: Form 20-F 2025 and 2026 (employees by business, total) · Honda human capital data FY2026 (gender, age, hiring)
Pay at Honda
¥9,326,000, up from ¥8,311,000 in FY2024. Honda publishes an average, not a median.
Source: Honda human capital data, Compensation (FY ended Mar 31, 2026)
Source: Honda careers site, Benefits page, “Pay and conditions” (2026). Approximate yen per year including bonuses; non-managers include 30 hours of overtime a month.
Honda does not publish pay by age. Starting salaries are published: ¥279,500 a month for a bachelor's degree and ¥327,800 for a master's (FY2026).
Compare Honda with: Volkswagen Group
Office history: from a wooden workshop in Hamamatsu back to Tokyo Station
- 1946 A wooden building in Yamashita-cho, Hamamatsu
In late summer 1946 a modest wooden building went up on a burned-out lot in Yamashita-cho, Hamamatsu — the small town factory where Honda's story begins.
Source: Honda 75 Years of History, Chapter I, Section 1
Yamashita Plant, Hamamatsu, c. 1952 · © Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - 1948 Honda Motor is founded in Itaya-machi, Hamamatsu
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. was founded on September 24, 1948, with 34 associates and ¥1 million in capital. Its first motorcycle, the Dream D-Type, was also born in Hamamatsu.
Source: Honda 75 Years of History · Honda's History digest · Honda Hamamatsu Factory page
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1952 Head office moves to Tokyo
After a Tokyo sales office (1950) and a Tokyo plant in Kita-ku, Honda moved its head office from Hamamatsu to 3-chome Maki-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo — and the next year to 2-chome.
Source: Honda's History, the 1950s timeline
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1960 The Yaesu Building — Honda's first own building
Honda's first company-owned building, next to Tokyo Station, held the head office until 1974. It was demolished from May 2023 for the redevelopment of the district.
Source: Honda Stories “Honda Aoyama Building” (2025) · Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1974 The Harajuku Building
The head office moved to Harajuku and stayed there until the Aoyama Building was finished in 1985.
Source: Honda Stories “Honda Aoyama Building” (2025)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1985 The Aoyama Building — “one big office”
Built to be “the newest building 20 years from now”, it had wide floors spanned by a grid of beams across nearly 19 m on four columns, a shared big room instead of private offices even for executives, balconies leading to escape stairs on every floor and two 35-tonne Canadian hiba-wood water tanks. About 700 Honda engineers worked on the project. It served for about 40 years and also housed Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama.
Source: Honda Stories “Honda Aoyama Building” (2025) · Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025
The Honda Aoyama Building · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2025 Toranomon Alcea Tower (temporary)
In May 2025 head office functions moved temporarily to Toranomon Alcea Tower and the Honda Wako Building, as the Aoyama Building is rebuilt with Mitsui Fudosan Residential.
Source: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · Form 20-F 2025 cover
Toranomon Alcea Tower, 2025 · Horocassi234 / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2029 (planned) Back to Yaesu
Before the end of 2029 the global head office is to move to high-rise floors of a 43-storey tower near Tokyo Station, on a site that includes the old Yaesu Building. Each office floor will be about 6.8 times bigger than at Aoyama and 1.8 times bigger than in Toranomon.
Source: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
From Hamamatsu to central Tokyo, and around a few kilometres of it: Yaesu, Harajuku, Aoyama and now Toranomon — with a planned return to Yaesu, by Tokyo Station, in 2029.
- 1 · 1946Yamashita-cho, Hamamatsu — A wooden workshop where it all began
- 2 · 1948Itaya-machi, Hamamatsu — Honda Motor Co., Ltd. founded
- 3 · 1952Maki-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo — Head office moves from Hamamatsu to Tokyo
- 4 · 1960Honda Yaesu Building — Honda's first own building, by Tokyo Station (1960–1974)
- 5 · 1974Honda Harajuku Building — Head office 1974–1985 (district-level location)
- 6 · 1985Honda Aoyama Building, Minami-Aoyama — Head office for about 40 years; now being rebuilt
- 7 · 2025Toranomon Alcea Tower — Today's head office, 2-2-3 Toranomon
Addresses and places: Honda 75 Years of History · Honda's History (1950s) · Honda Stories “Honda Aoyama Building” · Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · Form 20-F 2026 cover
What Honda does
Honda began with auxiliary engines for bicycles and became Japan's top motorcycle maker by 1957. Today it makes motorcycles, cars, power products and aircraft, and runs a financial-services arm; North America is its biggest market.
Four segments: Motorcycle, Automobile, Financial Services, and Power Products and Other Businesses.
Where the money came from · Revenue by business · FY2026 (year to Mar 31, 2026)
Source: Form 20-F 2026, Item 4.B (revenue from external customers by business)
Source: Form 20-F 2026, Items 4 and 5 · North America share calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥14.0T → ¥21.8T
211,915 → 195,109
Fiscal years end March 31. Revenue: SEC XBRL data from Honda's Form 20-F filings (FY2017–FY2025) and Form 20-F 2026. Employees: full-time employees at March 31, Form 20-F 2017–2026. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Joined Honda in 1987 and ran Honda R&D before becoming President and CEO in April 2021; Director, President and Representative Executive Officer since June 2021.
President and CEO until March 2021.
The first Honda president who had not developed engines.
Founder: Soichiro Honda. Co-founder: Takeo Fujisawa, who ran the business side from the early years.
Source: Honda executive profile of Toshihiro Mibe (2026) · Honda news releases on president appointments (Feb 23, 2015; Feb 19, 2021) · Honda 75 Years of History, Chapter I
Honda: questions people ask
Where is Honda's headquarters?
Since May 2025 Honda's head office functions have been in Toranomon Alcea Tower, 2-2-3 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo (with some in the Honda Wako Building in Saitama). This is a temporary move while the old Aoyama head office is rebuilt.
Source: Form 20-F 2026 cover · Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025
Is Honda moving its headquarters?
Yes. Before the end of 2029 Honda plans to move its global head office to high-rise office floors of a new 43-storey tower in the Yaesu 2-chome redevelopment near Tokyo Station — the area where Honda's own Yaesu Building held the head office from 1960 to 1974.
Source: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025
What happened to the Honda Aoyama Building?
The 1985 building closed as head office in spring 2025. Honda transferred part of its ownership to Mitsui Fudosan Residential, and the two are jointly building a new building on the site; Honda plans to use part of it.
Source: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · Honda Stories “Honda Aoyama Building”
What is Honda's office like inside?
In Toranomon the head office uses a “one-floor” layout, with everyone working in one space on one floor. Honda Software Studio Tokyo, in the same tower, has a white entrance with a red Honda logo, about 1,000 free-address seats bookable by QR code, one- to three-person booths and an area called GARAGE.
Source: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · Honda SDV R&D Center site (2026)
Who designed Toranomon Alcea Tower?
Nihon Sekkei did the basic plan; a Nihon Sekkei and Mitsubishi Jisho Sekkei joint venture did the basic design, design direction and supervision; Taisei Corporation did the detailed design. The 38-storey tower was completed in February 2025.
Source: Nihon Sekkei and Taisei Corporation project pages
How many people work at Honda?
195,109 full-time employees worldwide at March 31, 2026, according to Honda's Form 20-F. About 43,700 work for the five core companies in Japan.
Source: Form 20-F 2026 · Honda human capital data FY2026
How much do Honda employees make?
The average annual salary in Japan was ¥9,326,000 in FY2026. Honda's careers site gives examples for experienced hires from about ¥6.3 million (member) to about ¥18.6 million (department-head level, including stock).
Source: Honda human capital data FY2026 · Honda careers site
What benefits does Honda offer in Japan?
121 days off a year, 16–20 days of paid leave, childcare leave until a child's third year, ¥20,000 a month per child under 18, low-cost company housing, a 5–10% top-up on employee share purchases and permanent daycare at the Tochigi and Saitama sites.
Source: Honda careers site, Benefits page
Does Honda allow remote work?
Honda says face-to-face work matters for its “three realities” approach and its Waigaya discussions, so remote work is used where managers judge it fits the job, with extra flexibility for childcare or nursing care. Remote workers get a remote-work allowance, and many workplaces use flextime.
Source: Honda careers site, Work styles page
Can you visit Honda's headquarters?
The old head office in Aoyama housed Honda Welcome Plaza Aoyama, where the public could see and try Honda products. That building is now being rebuilt; Honda says it will explore making its part of the new building a place to enhance the Honda brand.
Source: Honda news release, Aug 29, 2025 · Honda Aoyama closing event page
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