What Japanese city is Toyota's global headquarters in?

Toyota’s global headquarters is in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The city lies roughly east of Nagoya and is closely associated with the automaker that bears its name.

Toyota Motor Corporation was incorporated in 1937 as an automobile-producing spin-off from Toyota Industries. Its main headquarters remains at 1 Toyota-cho in Toyota City, alongside major Toyota facilities including the Honsha plant and Toyota Technical Center.

A common mix-up is Tokyo, because Toyota also maintains a Tokyo head office and other corporate offices in Japan. Nagoya is another nearby major business center and hosts a Toyota office, but neither city is the location of the company’s principal global headquarters.

The city itself was formerly called Koromo. It changed its name to Toyota in 1951, reflecting the automaker’s growing importance to the local economy and its deep manufacturing roots in Aichi.