Facility Guide
Information on open hours, floor layout and more.
Communication is Our Key Word
The Yamaha Motor group is striving to be a global corporate group with the mission of "Offering new excitement and a more fulfilling life for people all over the world" by using our ingenuity and passion to help realize people’s dreams and to always be the one people look to for the next Kando.* To realize these aims, we have continued to expand our fields of business and now offer a wide range of products, from motorcycles, electric motorcycles, and electrically power assisted bicycles, to marine products like powerboats, sailboats and outboard motors, as well as generators, ATVs, swimming pools and industrial robots.
The Communication Plaza is a space that presents the past, present and future of the Yamaha Motor group. With "communication" as our key word, this concept behind this facility is to be a place where not only the customers who love our products, but also our business partners and the employees of Yamaha Motor group companies can meet, exchange information and interact with the aim of improving each other’s individual skills.
The Communication Plaza brings together the many types of Yamaha products serving people around the world as well as epoch-making models from our past, along with displays of the very latest Yamaha technologies, activities and information.
*Kando is a Japanese word for the simultaneous feelings of deep satisfaction and intense excitement that we experience when we encounter something of exceptional value.
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*Depending on the situation, the calendar may be changed without prior notice.
- These Plaza open days are based on Yamaha Motor’s working days.
- Please be aware that parts of the facility may be closed as circumstances require.
- The Plaza is open on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays and the following Sunday of each month. Please be aware that the opening time is different.
- Use of the meeting room is possible by Yamaha Motor product user clubs for meeting purposes.
When visiting the facility
- Entrance is free.
- Reservations are not necessary for groups of under ten people.
- When visiting the Plaza with 11 or more people, a reservation is required. Please fill in and submit the reservation form at least one week in advance. See the Group Visit reservation page below.
- Check here for information about eating and drinking.
- Besides at the café space (3rd floor), beverages are allowed in the Plaza Lounge (2nd floor) as well.
- There is a rest room available for use by visitors with babies. Please ask at the reception desk on the first floor.
- Diaper changing seats can be found in the wheelchair-accessible restrooms (1st and 2nd floor).
- Please contact the reception desk if you require a wheelchair.
- No pets are allowed into the Communication Plaza.
- Those who have consumed alcohol or are intoxicated cannot enter the Plaza.
The Communication Plaza is Yamaha Motor’s corporate museum, but is not staffed to provide individual responses to specific inquiries by phone or at the reception desk.
These include questions concerning technical details about Yamaha models, where or how to purchase parts, current or older Yamaha models, and business negotiations.
We also do not relay such inquiries to other divisions at Yamaha.
We ask for your understanding and cooperation, and thank you for your interest in the Communication Plaza.
About group visits
When visiting the Plaza with 11 or more people, a reservation is required.
Please fill in and submit the reservation form at least one week in advance.
*Please note that certain areas of the Plaza, its facilities, displays, etc., may be off limits.
Access
Communication Plaza 2500 Shingai, Iwata-shi, Shizuoka, Japan
By Car:
- Tomei Expressway: 5 km from Iwata Exit, 6.5 km from Fukuroi Exit
- Shin-Tomei Expressway: 17.5 km from Mori-Kakegawa Exit, 19 km from Hamamatsu-Hamakita Exit
- Iwata Bypass: 2 km from Iwai Exit
From Mikuriya Station on the JR Tokaido Line:
- By taxi
- About 5 min. ride - By foot
- About 15 min. (1.2 km)
From Iwata Station on the JR Tokaido Line:
- By bus
- Bus #25 at pole #1, get off at “Yamaha Hatsudouki” – 2 min. walk
- Bus #27 at pole #1, get off at “Nishikaizuka Kita” – 12 min. walk - By taxi
- About 10 min. ride (4.5 km)
Floor Guide
- First floor
- Second floor
- Third floor
- Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. Logo Mark 3D Monument
- Visitors are now greeted with a Logo Mark 3D Monument in front of the main entrance.
We would like to recommend taking a commemorative photograph in front of it.
[Request]
*Please refrain from obstructing other visitors walking by.
*Please make way to allow others to take photographs in turn.
*When photographing be sure to keep an eye out for vehicles passing by.
- 1 Entrance area – Symbol of the Spirit of Challenge-
- This building is the first area to greet our visitors.
Here we welcome visitors with an eternal message from out founder, Genichi Kawakami, and with representative products that embody the past and present of Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. Here we seek to build an uplifting feeling worthy of the start of “A journey into Yamaha Motor.”
- 2Special Display Area
- At the Communication Plaza, in order to create a more enjoyable experience for a wider range of visitors, we present a constantly changing array of social culture embodied by our company and our products (including sub-culture, entertainment culture, etc.).
- 3Manufacturing, Design area – Yamaha Motor Monozukuri (product creation) -
- When we speak of Yamaha Monozukuri (product creation) the elements of “design” and “manufacturing” cannot be ignored, Here, we introduce these two processes.
- 4Technology Area – Technological Innovation - (Yamaha Motor Craftsmanship) -
- From the continuing processes of evolution and refinement are born new value.
Yamaha Motor’s core technologies
・Powertrain technology
・Electronic control technology
・Chassis, body-work technology
・Production technology
are all introduced here in the context of motorcycles.
- 5・6・7・8Product display area – The joy of being on the water・The joy of being on the land・Everyday enjoyment – these are things life and society based on -
- Things that are useful in various everyday scenes, beginning with the motorcycles people love, and including boats and outboard motors, 4-wheeled buggies, automobile engines, electric power-assisted bicycles, electric wheelchairs, golf cars, unmanned helicopters for industry, and on to industrial robots and more.
- 9Lifestyle proposal area- Co-creation of experience-based value -
- At Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. we give total support not only for our products but also for “Lifestyles with a Yamaha.”
Beginning from the initial encounter with a Yamaha product, this area introduces some of the exciting lifestyles they can provide.
- 10Racing and sporting activities area
- Ever since our company’s founding, we at Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. have depended on the spirit of taking on new challenges to open up the future.
The experience of sports inspires “The spirit to take on new challenges.”
Supporting sporting activities can be seen as an essence of our corporate culture.
Yamaha Motor’s soccer club led to the founding of the (J League) Jubilo Iwata team, and our rugby club became the foundation for the SHIZUOKA BlueRevs team, while we can also introduce here motorcycle racing and a variety of other sporting activities.
- 11Touch ＆ Try Area
- In order to help users who come in contact with Yamaha Motor products understand “Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd., we provide simulators and display models that users can actually get on, and we hope people will definitely take the opportunity to use them. We also hope that Plaza visitors will take advantage of the spot provided for taking commemorative photographs.
- 12Plaza Shop
- At the end of the Plaza’s 1st-floor tour route you will find our Plaza Shop. The shop offers a variety of original Yamaha Motor goods and many other items to make your visit a memorable one.
- 14Presentation Room
- When group tours and events are held, explanations about the history and overviews of Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd. are also given.
*Access to these explanations is only available to members of the groups that have made reservations.
*Depending on the status of reservations, there may be cases where the explanations cannot be provided.
- 15Corporate History Zone
- Introduced here are Yamaha Motor’s beginnings: learn about how the company was founded; the meaning behind the Tuning Fork Mark; Yamaha's first motorcycle; the challenge of racing that has been a part of Yamaha DNA since its founding; the spirit of the founder and first president that lives on today; the path taken to diversify and globalize, and more. In addition to the informative displays, you can view related footage in the historic film theater.
- 16Racing History Zone
- This area introduces Yamaha’s history of challenge in the world of racing that began soon after the company was founded. Here you will find historic models and trophies from various racing categories, and a timeline of achievements spanning over 50 years of competition. There are also touchscreens to view commemorative publications, and race-related video footage is shown on the main screen.
- 17Product History Zone
- This area displays historic Yamaha models and products from the company's beginnings up to today, including motorcycles, marine products like boats and outboard motors, recreational products like ATVs, generators and other power products, and automobile engines. Visitors can also browse various kinds of digital content here. As a policy, the models in the Plaza collection are kept in running condition.
- 18Plaza Lounge
- In the Plaza Lounge you will find past product pamphlets and Yamaha publications (PDF format) and historic film footage accessible on touch-screen monitors. There are also magazines specialized in motorcycles and marine/boating products to view. During your visit we have prepared spaces where you can relax for a moment. In the lounge and in the 3rd floor Café space you can drink the things you purchase at the vending machines for drinks. We are sorry to say that with regard to food it can only be eaten in the 3rd floor Café space.
- 19Café space
- We do not offer any dining courses. But we hope you will use drinks from the vending machines. You will be able to use the drinks you bring in at the Café space. There is a limit to the number of seats available (30 seats).
We ask that you take with you any refuse you have.
