Nissan Yokohama HQ: Office Photos & Benefits

THE GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS · YOKOHAMA · SINCE 2009

Glass on two sides, “engawa” porches on every floor

Nissan's head office stands where the walkway from Yokohama Station enters Minato Mirai 21. The ground floor is a tall open hall with the car gallery, crossed by a public pedestrian deck. The offices above have all-glass north and south walls. Along both sides of each floor runs an “engawa” (veranda), a two-storey space for meetings; the north and south engawa are offset by one floor, so every office floor connects to the floors above and below. Outside, aluminium louvres called “sudare” (bamboo blinds) shade the glass, and a light well in the middle of each floor brings in daylight and natural ventilation. The design theme was “JAPANESE DNA”.

92,102 m² (≈ 991,377 sq ft)
22 floors + 2 basements
Design: Takenaka Corporation, supervised by Yoshio Taniguchi
Built by Shimizu Corporation
BCS Prize · Good Design Award 2010
Free public car gallery

The Global Headquarters by Yokohama Station (2009)

The 22-floor building at 1-1 Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku, was designed by Takenaka Corporation under Yoshio Taniguchi and built by Shimizu Corporation.

Glass tower with horizontal louvres rising above a low white podium — Louvres on the glass façade · Wiiii / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass office tower seen from a wide road with street lamps — From the street · alonfloc / CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass tower behind a long low podium and a footbridge, with a crane in the distance — Tower and podium · TTTNIS / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Glass tower rising above a pedestrian bridge, next to a round glass building — From the pedestrian bridge · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass tower and its podium seen across a canal — Across the canal · Akonnchiroll / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass tower catching warm light, with its podium by the water — By the water · ApaApJt / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass tower seen from water level with a bridge in front — From a boat · Ymblanter / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Deep white canopy on a single round column over the entrance forecourt — Entrance canopy · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Paved forecourt under a tall white column and canopy, with charging stations and parked cars — The forecourt · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Inside the Nissan Global Headquarters Gallery

The ground floor is a tall open hall with the free public car gallery, crossed by a public pedestrian deck.

Visitors on a wide stone deck looking down through glass rails into a hall below — Looking down into the gallery · MIKI Yoshihito / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Dim stone-paved hall with a curved glass wall on the left and daylight at the far end — The pedestrian deck · Thirteen-fri / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Long paved walkway under a high ceiling leading toward bright windows — Through the building · Thirteen-fri / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass entrance with an escalator going down behind it — Gallery entrance · MIKI Yoshihito / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass entrance with an information screen in front of an escalator — Down to the gallery · Thirteen-fri / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Glass-walled entrance lit at night with an information kiosk — Gallery entrance at night · Thirteen-fri / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Tall window bays lined with slender fins beside café tables — Gallery café · MIKI Yoshihito / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Round table with red chairs beside a glass wall — Seating by the glass · MIKI Yoshihito / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Facts: Takenaka Corporation project page “Nissan Global Headquarters” · Institute for Building Environment and Energy Conservation (IBEC), 4th Sustainable Architecture Award review · Shimizu Corporation project page.

Yokohama headquarters, Kanagawa R&D

Building	Address
Global Headquarters	1-1, Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-8686
Registered head office (Yokohama Plant)	2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 220-8623
Nissan Technical Center	560-2 Okatsukoku, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0192
Nissan Advanced Technology Center	1-1, Morinosatoaoyama, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-0123
Research Center (Oppama)	1, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-8523

Source: Nissan Company Outline and “Major Facilities in Japan” (as of Mar 31, 2026) · Nissan careers site, Work places · See them on the map ↓

Design and supervisionTakenaka Corporation

Design supervisorYoshio Taniguchi (Taniguchi and Associates)

BuilderShimizu Corporation

Floor area92,102 m² (≈ 991,377 sq ft)

Floors22 above ground, 2 below

Completed / openedApril 2009 / August 2009

Awards52nd BCS Prize · Good Design Award 2010 · 23rd Nikkei New Office Award · 4th Sustainable Architecture Award

Source: Takenaka Corporation project page (design, floor area, awards) · Shimizu Corporation project page (completion; it lists 92,329 m²) · IBEC award page · Nissan “Our History” (opening). In its FY2025 first-half results Nissan said it is selling the building and leasing it back.

Benefits (Japan)

Days off121 a year

Two days off a week by company calendar, plus about 9 days in summer, about 9 days at New Year and Golden Week.

Paid leave17–20 days

Depending on years of service; employees took 18.8 days on average in FY2024.

Working hoursNo core time

“Super flex”: choose your own start and end times within the month (flexible window 6:00–22:00, by site).

Remote workNo cap

Taken for any reason in 10-minute units, with a remote-work allowance.

On-site daycareAt HQ

Employee-only daycare (“Māchiland”) at Nissan sites including the Global Headquarters, the Technical Center and the Yokohama and Oppama plants.

Family support leave12–15 days

For childcare, nursing care, marriage or fertility treatment, in hourly units. The benefits page lists 15 days a year; the women's careers page lists 12 (5 paid).

Childcare leaveTo age 2

Until the end of April after the child turns two; shorter hours (up to 3 hours less a day) until the end of sixth grade, plus a babysitter subsidy up to third grade.

HousingRent subsidy

Rent subsidy for single and family employees, plus dormitories and company housing.

Source: Nissan careers site, “Benefits and programs” and “Women at Nissan” pages (2026) · new-graduate job requirements (FY2026)

Why people stay: what Nissan itself reports

97.0%Of annual leave actually taken

Teams set “leave promotion days” so that taking time off is normal.

Shift CareerApply for the job you want

Two internal programs, “Shift Career” and “Open Entry”, let employees move to work they choose.

AbroadPostings and training overseas

Foreign and short-term assignments, plus G-FTP: six months to two years as a trainee at an overseas site.

Cross-functionalTeams across departments

Cross Functional Teams and planned rotations between departments; V-FAST facilitator training for leading them.

96.5%Of women return after parental leave

And 75.5% of eligible men took parental leave.

Platinum KuruminTop childcare-support certification

Nissan was the first in its industry (transport equipment) to earn it.

Source: Nissan careers site, “Career development” and “Women at Nissan” pages (figures from Nissan Sustainability Data Book 2026)

Who works here

Gender · indirect employees in Japan

Women 19.6%

120,079

employees worldwide (Mar 31, 2026)

23,174

employees at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. itself

100+

nationalities in the global workforce

16.8%

of managers worldwide are women

Source: Nissan Company Outline and Nissan at a Glance (as of Mar 31, 2026) · Nissan careers site, “Women at Nissan” (Sustainability Data Book 2026)

Pay at Nissan

Starting monthly salary for new graduates · Nissan Motor, Japan (FY2026)

Doctorate$300,000 – $300,000

Master's$280,000 – $280,000

Bachelor's$260,000 – $260,000

College of technology (kōsen)$217,000 – $217,000

Source: Nissan new-graduate job requirements, “Starting salary (FY2026 actual)”. Monthly base pay in yen; bonuses are paid twice a year (July and December).

Pay by ageNot published on the website

Nissan's careers site does not give pay by age or an average salary; the average is reported only in its Japanese securities report.

Office history: from reclaimed land in Yokohama, to Tokyo and back

1933
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.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (Nissan's beginnings; 1930s)

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1934
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.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (1930s) · Company Outline

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1944
Head office moves to Nihonbashi, Tokyo
In September 1944, during the war, the head office moved to Nihonbashi in Tokyo and the company was renamed Nissan Heavy Industries, Ltd.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (1940s)

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1946
Back to Yokohama
In January 1946 the headquarters returned to Yokohama.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (1940s)

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1968
A new head office building in Ginza, Tokyo
Five years after opening the Nissan Gallery in Ginza (August 1963), Nissan moved its headquarters operations to its own new building in the Ginza area of Tokyo in January 1968. It stayed there for more than 40 years.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (1960s)

Nissan's former head office in Ginza, Tokyo (1968–2009) · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
2005
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.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (2000s) · Takenaka and Shimizu project pages

The new headquarters under construction, April 2008 · MJ-bird / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
2009
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.
Source: Nissan “Our History” (2000s) · Shimizu project page · Nissan Gallery site

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2025
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”.
Source: Nissan news release, first-half FY2025 results (Nov 6, 2025)

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Map: how the headquarters moved

Nissan began on the Yokohama waterfront, spent most of the postwar decades in central Tokyo, and in 2009 came back to Yokohama, by Yokohama Station.

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1 · 1933Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama — Reclaimed land at Shinkoyasu; the Yokohama Plant, still the registered head office
2 · 1944Nihonbashi, Tokyo — Wartime head office (district-level location)
3 · 1968Ginza, Tokyo — Nissan's own head office building, 1968–2009 (district-level location)
4 · 2009Global Headquarters, Takashima, Yokohama — Today's head office, 1-1 Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku

Addresses and places: Nissan “Our History” (1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 2000s) · Company Outline (as of Mar 31, 2026). The 1946 return to Yokohama is not mapped because Nissan does not give the address.

What Nissan does

Nissan makes and sells cars and related products. It is in the middle of “Re:Nissan”, a recovery plan launched in 2025 to cut costs, rethink which markets and models it focuses on, and strengthen partnerships.

Revenue, FY2025¥12.0Tconsolidated, year to Mar 31, 2026

Operating profit, FY2025¥58.0Bmargin 0.5%

Net income, FY2025−¥533.1Ba loss, after −¥670.9B in FY2024

Global sales, FY20253.15Mvehicles

Source: Nissan news releases “Nissan reports financial results for fiscal year 2025” (May 13, 2026) and “… fiscal year 2024” (May 13, 2025) · Nissan recruitment site, Re:Nissan

Growth: revenue vs. people

1.2×revenue, FY2019 → FY2025
¥9.9T → ¥12.0T

YearRevenueEmployees

FY2019

¥9.9T

—

FY2020

¥7.9T

—

FY2021

¥8.4T

—

FY2022

¥10.6T

—

FY2023

¥12.7T

—

FY2024

¥12.6T

—

FY2025

¥12.0T

120,079

Nissan's fiscal year runs April to March (FY2025 = April 2025 – March 2026). Revenue: consolidated net revenue as stated in Nissan's full-year results releases (FY2019–FY2025; some years are given rounded). Employees: Company Outline, as of Mar 31, 2026; earlier years are published only in PDF reports and are not shown. Multiple calculated by eciffo.

Chief executives

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2025 – today

Ivan Espinosa

Joined Nissan Mexicana in 2003 in product planning; chief planning officer before becoming president and CEO in April 2025. Launched the Re:Nissan recovery plan.

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2019 – 2025

Makoto Uchida

Previously president of Dongfeng Motor Co.; appointed CEO in October 2019 and took office on December 1, 2019.

Founder: Yoshisuke Aikawa, who established Jidosha Seizo Co., Ltd. in Yokohama in 1933 through his companies Nihon Sangyo and Tobata Casting.

Source: Nissan newsroom, Ivan Espinosa biography · news releases “Nissan appoints new leadership” (Mar 11, 2025) and “Nissan appoints new top leadership” (Oct 8, 2019) · Nissan “Our History”

Nissan's official social accounts

Accounts linked from Nissan's global corporate website.

YouTubeyoutube.com/Nissan ↗X (Twitter)@NissanMotor ↗LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/nissan-motor-corporation ↗

Nissan: questions people ask

Where is Nissan's headquarters?

At the Nissan Global Headquarters, 1-1 Takashima 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Yokohama — about a 7-minute walk from the east exit of Yokohama Station. The registered head office is still at the Yokohama Plant, 2 Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku.

Source: Nissan Company Outline · Nissan Gallery access page

Who designed Nissan's headquarters?

Takenaka Corporation designed and supervised it, with architect Yoshio Taniguchi as design supervisor. Shimizu Corporation built it.

Source: Takenaka and Shimizu project pages

How big is Nissan's headquarters?

22 floors above ground and 2 below, with a total floor area of 92,102 m² (≈ 991,000 sq ft) according to its designer.

Source: Takenaka Corporation project page

Can you visit Nissan's headquarters?

Yes — the Nissan Global Headquarters Gallery on the ground floor is free and needs no booking. It is open 10:00–18:00 on weekdays and 10:00–20:00 on weekends and holidays; there are no guided tours of the offices.

Source: Nissan Gallery site (access and FAQ)

When did Nissan move its headquarters to Yokohama?

Nissan announced the move from Ginza, Tokyo, in June 2005 and inaugurated the new Global Headquarters in Yokohama in August 2009. Nissan had been founded in Yokohama in 1933.

Source: Nissan “Our History”

Does Nissan still own its headquarters building?

In November 2025 Nissan said it was optimizing non-core assets, including the sale and leaseback of its global headquarters in Yokohama.

Source: Nissan news release, Nov 6, 2025

Does Nissan allow remote work?

Yes, in Japan. Remote work can be taken for any reason in 10-minute units with no upper limit, and comes with an allowance; working hours are “super flex” with no core time.

Source: Nissan careers site, Benefits and Women at Nissan pages

What benefits does Nissan offer in Japan?

121 days off a year, 17–20 days of paid leave, on-site daycare at several sites including the headquarters, a babysitter subsidy, childcare leave until the child turns two, rent subsidies and company housing, and an employee car purchase program.

Source: Nissan careers site, Benefits

How many people work at Nissan?

120,079 people worldwide on a consolidated basis and 23,174 at Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. itself, as of March 31, 2026.

Source: Nissan Company Outline

Who is Nissan's CEO?

Ivan Espinosa, president and CEO since April 2025, who succeeded Makoto Uchida.

Source: Nissan news release, Mar 11, 2025

Nissan Headquarters & offices · Yokohama, Japan

A 22-floor glass headquarters with a public walkway running through it, a free car gallery on the ground floor — and a daycare for employees' children inside.