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Toyota Motor Corporation Headquarters & offices · Toyota City, Japan
Toyota Motor Corporation · Toyota City, Japan
Toyota's head office still shares its site with the car plant it opened in 1938, on what was once a barren plain called Ronchigahara.
The head office beside the Honsha Plant, the Tokyo and Nagoya offices, the Corgan-designed North American campus in Plano — and 90 years of moves from a loom works to Toyota City. Every number from Toyota's own filings, data book, careers pages and press releases.
- 1938Honsha Plant opened — on the same site as the head office
- 23,479people at the Head Office & Technical Center site (Mar 31, 2026)
- 0.7%voluntary turnover at Toyota Motor Corporation, FY2026
- 8.8 MWsolar canopy on the Plano, Texas campus
Sources: Form 20-F FY2026 (Item 4.D) · Sustainability Data Book 2026 · Toyota 75-year history · Corgan · Toyota Pressroom
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THE HEAD OFFICE · TOYOTA CITY
A head office next to the plant where it all began
Toyota's head office at 1 Toyota-cho stands on the same site as the Honsha Plant — opened in 1938 as the Koromo Plant — and the technical center; 23,479 people work across the Head Office and Technical Center site. A head office building was completed there in 1960 (now the former Head Office), and a new main building opened in 2005. In Plano, Texas, Toyota Motor North America works on a seven-building, LEED Platinum campus by Corgan, arranged around a central courtyard shaped by the contours of a creek bed, with green roofs, shaded loggias and an interconnecting stair in a light well at the heart of each building.
- Same site as the Honsha Plant (1938)
- New main building, 2005
- Tokyo Head Office since 1991
- Plano: 7 buildings on 100 acres
- Plano: LEED Platinum, 8.8 MW solar
- 850-seat dining commons in Plano
Facts: Toyota Times, “The History of Toyota's Honsha Plant” · global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02) · Form 20-F FY2026, Item 4.D · Corgan project page “Toyota North America Headquarters and R&D Facility” · Toyota Pressroom, July 6, 2017.
Toyota City, Tokyo, Nagoya and Plano
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Head Office (Honsha) | 1 Toyota-cho, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture 471-8571, Japan |
| Tokyo Head Office | 1-4-18 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8701, Japan |
| Nagoya Office | 4-7-1 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture 450-8711, Japan |
| Toyota Motor North America HQ | 6565 Headquarters Drive, Plano, Texas 75024, United States |
Source: global.toyota company overview · Form 20-F FY2026 cover · Toyota Motor Credit Corporation SEC filings (Plano address) · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Item 4.D · global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02) · Corgan project page · Toyota Pressroom, July 6, 2017
Benefits (Japan and the United States)
Annual holidays in FY2025 for office and engineering hires, with full two-day weekends, Golden Week, summer and New Year breaks, plus paid and special leave.
Share of annual paid leave actually taken in FY2026 (union-member average). Unused days carry over for up to two years.
Childcare leave until a child turns two, plus 15 days a year for a sick or injured child (20 days for two or more), available until the child is 18.
Reduced working hours for parents until a child reaches 18, plus the Free Time & Location (FTL) program for remote work and a flextime system.
A choose-your-own benefits plan, home-ownership support, an employee shareholding association and savings plans; dormitories and company housing, sports facilities and resorts.
16 company-paid holidays a year (may vary by location), plus vacation that grows with tenure.
A 401(k) with a company match plus an annual retirement contribution, and retiree health and welfare benefits.
Back-up care, college coaching and elder-care guidance, plus an Employee Assistance Program with counselors 24/7/365. Team members can also lease a Toyota or Lexus at a discount.
Source: recruit.toyota new-graduate job description (FY2025) · Sustainability Data Book 2026, pp. 106, 112 and Social Data p. 149 · careers.toyota.com “The Perks of Working at Toyota” (U.S.).
Why people stay: what Toyota itself reports
Fewer than 1 in 100 Toyota Motor Corporation employees left for personal reasons (FY2024 and FY2025: 0.9%).
Average length of employment at Toyota Motor Corporation in FY2026; the average age is 40.9.
FY2026, up from 61% in FY2024; the target is 85% or higher on average to 2030.
Share of employees who say they find purpose and fulfillment in their work, up from 57% in FY2024.
Self-nominated transfers through internal job postings and internal posting secondments, based on each person's career goals.
Administrative and engineering retirees re-hired in FY2026; Toyota has run re-employment programs since 1991.
Source: Sustainability Data Book 2026, Social Data pp. 148–149 and pp. 92, 106–107
Who works here
of managers worldwide are women (3.9% at Toyota Motor Corporation)
turnover of permanent employees, group-wide, FY2026
average age at Toyota Motor Corporation
people at the Head Office & Technical Center site
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Item 6.D (regions; “other” = Europe 24,741 plus Central & South America, Oceania, Africa and the Middle East) and Item 4.D · Sustainability Data Book 2026, Social Data pp. 148–150 (gender, managers, turnover, age)
Pay at Toyota Motor Corporation
¥10,060,464 including bonuses, up from ¥8,998,575 in FY2024. Toyota publishes an average, not a median.
Source: Sustainability Data Book 2026, Social Data p. 149
Starting monthly salary in Japan for bachelor's-level office and engineering hires (FY2025); ¥300,000 with a master's degree. Bonuses are paid twice a year, in July and December.
Toyota does not report pay by age. The average salary, above, comes with an average employee age of 40.9.
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Office history: from a loom works to Toyota City
- 1933 An automobile division inside a loom maker
Toyota began in 1933 as the automobile division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (today Toyota Industries). On September 1, 1933 the loom works formally decided to enter the car business and began looking for a plant site.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Item 4.A · Toyota 75-year history, Part 1 Ch. 2 Sec. 4 Item 2
Toyota Industries' headquarters in Kariya, the former Toyoda Automatic Loom Works · Aratsuku / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1935 A barren plain called Ronchigahara
Kiichiro Toyoda first looked at Kariya, but the company chose Koromo-cho instead. In December 1935 it bought about two million square metres of empty land there for ¥228,611.64.
Source: Toyota 75-year history, Part 1 Ch. 2 Sec. 4 Item 2
Toyota's Honsha Plant, Toyota City, 2019 · Oka21000 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1937 Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. — head office at Koromo-cho
Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. was registered on August 28, 1937, with its head office at Maeyama 8, Shimoichiba, Koromo-cho, Nishikamo-gun, Aichi. Ground was broken for the plant on September 29, 1937.
Source: Toyota 75-year history, Part 1 Ch. 2 Sec. 4 Item 3
Toyota's head office in Koromo, 1954 · Unknown author / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1938 The Koromo Plant opens — Toyota's official founding day
Equipment began moving from Kariya in April 1938. The Koromo Plant (now the Honsha Plant) was completed on November 3, 1938, the date Toyota counts as its founding. It still stands on the same site as the head office.
Source: Toyota 75-year history, Part 1 Ch. 2 Sec. 4 Item 3 · Toyota Times, “The History of Toyota's Honsha Plant”
Koromo plant, 1938 · Toyota City / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1960 A head office building
A head office building was completed at the Koromo site. Toyota now calls it the former Head Office.
Source: global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02)
Head office building · Tokumeigakarinoaoshima / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1982 Making and selling become one company
Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. and Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd. merged to form today's Toyota Motor Corporation.
Source: Form 20-F FY2026, Item 4.A · global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1991 A second head office in Tokyo
The Tokyo Branch office became the Tokyo Head Office, today at 1-4-18 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku.
Source: global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02) · company overview
Tokyo head office · Yosei Shoshi / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2005 A new main building at 1 Toyota-cho
A new main building opened at the head office in Toyota City, beside the Honsha Plant and the technical center.
Source: global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02) · Toyota Times
Head office, Toyota City · Chris 73 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2017 One Toyota in Plano, Texas
Toyota Motor North America opened a new headquarters in Plano on July 6, 2017, bringing sales, engineering, financial services and corporate teams from California, Kentucky and elsewhere onto one 100-acre campus designed by Corgan, with room for up to 4,000 people.
Source: Toyota Pressroom, Aug 19, 2014 and July 6, 2017 · Corgan
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Map: how the headquarters moved
Toyota has never left the plain it bought in 1935: the Koromo-cho of 1937 is today's 1 Toyota-cho. The second head office is in Tokyo, about 270 km away.
- 1 · 1937Koromo-cho (now Toyota City) — First head office and the Koromo Plant, completed 1938
- 2 · 1991Tokyo Head Office, Bunkyo-ku — The Tokyo Branch office becomes the Tokyo Head Office
- 3 · 2005Head Office, 1 Toyota-cho, Toyota City — New main building opens beside the Honsha Plant — today's headquarters
Addresses: Toyota 75-year history · global.toyota company overview · Locations: eciffo from the street addresses
What Toyota Motor Corporation does
Toyota's main business is making and selling motor vehicles; a financial services arm sits alongside it. It sold about 9.6 million vehicles in fiscal 2026, more than 2.9 million of them in North America.
Three business segments: Automotive, Financial Services, and All Other.
Where the money came from · consolidated vehicle sales by region, FY2026 (thousand units)
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 (fiscal year ended March 31, 2026), Item 4.B, consolidated vehicle unit sales
Source: Form 20-F FY2026 and FY2024, Item 4.B · global.toyota company overview · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
¥27.6T → ¥50.7T
364,445 → 390,927
Fiscal years end March 31. Revenue in trillion yen: SEC XBRL data from Toyota's Form 20-F filings (U.S. GAAP for FY2017–FY2019, IFRS from FY2020). Employees: consolidated, as of March 31, Form 20-F Item 6.D (FY2020 as restated in the FY2021 20-F). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
President, Member of the Board of Directors and Representative Director.
Former President (named “then-President” in the FY2026 Form 20-F).
Toyota's car business was started by Kiichiro Toyoda inside Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. Akio Toyoda is Chairman.
Source: global.toyota company overview · Form 20-F FY2026, Item 4 · Toyota 75-year history
Toyota Motor Corporation: questions people ask
Where is Toyota's headquarters?
At 1 Toyota-cho, Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan — on the same site as the Honsha Plant, which opened in 1938. Toyota also has a Tokyo Head Office in Bunkyo-ku and a Nagoya Office.
Source: global.toyota company overview · Toyota Times
Where is Toyota's Tokyo head office?
At 1-4-18 Koraku, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo. The Tokyo Branch office was renamed the Tokyo Head Office in 1991.
Source: global.toyota company overview · Trajectory of Toyota (history 02)
When was the current head office building built?
A new main building opened at the Toyota City head office in 2005. The earlier head office building, completed in 1960, is now called the former Head Office.
Source: global.toyota, Trajectory of Toyota (history 02)
Why is Toyota's head office in Toyota City?
In 1935 the company bought about two million square metres of empty land at Koromo-cho and built its first plant there. The town is now part of Toyota City, and the head office has stayed on that site.
Source: Toyota 75-year history · Toyota Times
Who designed Toyota Motor North America's headquarters in Plano?
The Dallas firm Corgan designed the seven-building campus at 6565 Headquarters Drive, with KDC as developer and Austin Commercial managing construction. It opened on July 6, 2017.
Source: Toyota Pressroom, July 6, 2017 · Corgan
How big is Toyota's Plano campus?
2.1 million square feet (about 195,100 m²) on 100 acres, with an 850-person dining commons, a 22,000 sq ft fitness center with a climbing wall, a healthcare clinic and pharmacy. It is LEED Platinum and has an 8.8 MW solar canopy.
Source: Corgan · Toyota Pressroom, July 6, 2017
How many people work at Toyota?
390,927 across the consolidated group and 73,133 at Toyota Motor Corporation, as of March 31, 2026. 23,479 work at the Head Office and Technical Center site in Toyota City.
Source: global.toyota company overview · Form 20-F FY2026
What benefits does Toyota offer in Japan?
121 days off a year (FY2025), childcare leave until a child turns two, shorter hours for parents until a child is 18, a cafeteria-style benefits plan, an employee shareholding association, dormitories and company housing. Employees took 90.4% of their paid leave in FY2026.
Source: recruit.toyota job description · Sustainability Data Book 2026
Can Toyota employees work remotely?
In Japan, Toyota Motor Corporation's Free Time & Location (FTL) program allows remote work, alongside a flextime system. In the U.S., flexible work options depend on the role and location.
Source: Sustainability Data Book 2026, p. 112 · careers.toyota.com Perks
How much do Toyota employees earn?
The average annual salary at Toyota Motor Corporation was ¥10,060,464 in FY2026, including bonuses. Bachelor's-level office and engineering hires in Japan start at ¥275,000 a month.
Source: Sustainability Data Book 2026 · recruit.toyota
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