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Observe the finest Japanese craftsmanship at the piano factory with the aroma of wood

ADDRESS 1480 Ryouke, Kakegawa-shi 436-0038 TRANSPORT From Hamamatsu Station [TRAIN] JR Tokaido Shinkansen Kodama or JR Tokaido Line "Kakegawa" station then take a taxi (15 minutes) Or Tenryu Hamanako Railroad "Sakuragi" station then walk ( 8 minutes) [CAR] Around 20 minute from Shin Tomei Expressway Mori Kakegawa I.C. Around 20 minute from Tomei Expressway Kakegawa I.C. or Fukuroi I.C. 2021.4.30 update Content may be subject to change after publication. Please also note that we are not accountable for loses and damages that may occur as a result of said changes.

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Yamaha Kakegawa Factory

4.5 ( 130 )

1480 Ryōke, Kakegawa, Shizuoka 436-0038, Japan

Visit YAHAMA factory in Kakegawa, which is one of the most famous music instrument companies in Japan and started in Hamamatsu city, you can observe the manufacturing process of grand pianos.

Opening hours

Mondays : 10:30 – 11:30 AM, 1:00 – 2:30 PM

Tuesdays : 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Wednesdays : 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Thursdays : 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Fridays : 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Saturdays : 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Sundays : 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Preston Tamkin 5 months ago

Absolutely incredible tour at an incredible facility by an incredible guide. You see the factory line where the CX series is built. The CF and SX are also built on site but in a different building. Riding the Tenryu line was an experience itself, as there is no IC Card support but the train staff was so helpful. As a Yamaha owner,this was an absolute highlight of this trip to Japan.

Australian Wanderer a year ago

What an amazing tour organised by our Japanese friend. And wow what a great tour of the manufacturing of Yamaha pianos and musical instruments. Our guide was fantastic and very friendly and made the tour so enjoyable. I learnt so much, I highly recommend it. You can play heaps of piano 🎹 and electronic drums and guitars.

Rajneesh Vohra 4 years ago

It's was great experience for me to visit Yamaha piano factory in kekegawa Japan. I came here with my friend Aya Chan, we saw piano factory tour and see how piano made. As I'm working as piano tuner and repair in Delhi, it's was great experience for me to see the piano factory. My first piano was Yamaha piano. I love this company sine my childhood. I'm leaning Japanese language and in future I would like to work in Yamaha piano factory in Japan.

Yuki Takei 5 years ago

They have great tour program. If you register they will let you play their newest model piano. Also in the showroom, you can play a lot of piano and see many models including the specia limited models and antique model .

Amy Lee 6 years ago

Awesome showroom and tour! English tours available, you just need to call up and book the tours (tour is free). Very informative and great for both music aficionados and those who are simply curious. Even better for piano technicians! Cutest little train station and walk-through flower garden on the short walk to the Yamaha factory too.

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Visits to innovation road.

• Three types of clear file folder (piano, string instruments, wind instruments) 300 yen each
• Six types of postcard (piano, violin, mixer, guitar, drums, saxophone) 100 yen each
• MD notepad 1,000 yen
• Two types of musical instrument sticker (guitar, wind instrument) 300 yen each
• Keyboard film sticky notes 600 yen
• Three types of nanoblock building blocks (Venova, Silent Guitar, Sholkey) 1,000 yen each

<By car> If you are using a car navigation system, setting “Hachiman station (“八幡駅” in Japanese) on the Entetsu railway line as your destination will bring you to the main gate of our premises. Note that setting Yamaha's address in your system will guide you to a different gate on the premises. There are Yamaha buildings on both sides of the road on which Hachiman station is located. Innovation Road is situated on the west side.

<By train> Two minutes’ walk from Hachiman station on the Entetsu railway line.

<By taxi> Approximately 8 minutes from JR Hamamatsu station.

Regardless of your method of transport, please call at the security checkpoint and then come to the reception counter.

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BY Mac Randall

Tagged under:, a brief history of yamaha pianos, they represent more than a hundred years of quality and innovation..

The distinctive sound of Yamaha pianos can be heard today in concert halls, recording and rehearsal studios, places of worship, and educational institutions of every level.

But this success was far from sudden; in fact, it’s been more than a hundred years in the making. Here’s a brief history that shows how one man’s dream to craft the world’s finest concert grand pianos became a reality, thanks to the efforts of a century’s worth of skilled craftsmen and musicians.

1900 – 1949

The first piano to be made in Japan was an upright built in 1900 by Torakusu Yamaha , founder of Nippon Gakki Co., Ltd. — later renamed Yamaha Corporation. Just two years later, the Nippon Gakki factory resonated with the tones of its first grand piano. During this early period, the company focused on manufacturing instruments for the Japanese market, where interest in Western classical music was still relatively new. Even so, Torakusu did send one of his pianos to the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, where it received an Honorary Grand Prize.

By the 1920s, Yamaha craftsmen were regularly traveling overseas to gain knowledge of the latest European piano production techniques. In 1926, the company invited Ale Schlegel, an expert piano technician from Germany, to visit with the craftsmen at the Nippon Gakki facilities in Hamamatsu, Japan and discuss piano making in exhaustive detail. Schlegel’s advice yielded a much improved product. Before long, well-known European pianists were taking favorable note of Yamaha instruments, among them Arthur Rubinstein and Leo Sirota.

1950 – 1959

In 1950, Yamaha released the FC concert grand piano to great acclaim. Spurred on by that model’s success, the company built one new facility after another in its continuing quest to make an even better piano. In 1956, the company completed work on Japan’s first computer-controlled artificial drying room, where the moisture content of wood — a vital factor for any piano — is adjusted to the optimum level after the natural drying process is complete. In 1958, Yamaha set up a grand piano assembly line at its Hamamatsu headquarters.

1960 – 1969

At the start of the 1960s, Yamaha made a major move, creating a new company in the U.S.A. to import and distribute its pianos: Yamaha International Corporation. By 1965, Yamaha was producing more pianos than any other manufacturer.

In that same year, Cesare Tallone, one of Europe’s most respected piano technicians, came to Japan and visited the Yamaha factory. Deeply impressed by its facilities and employees, he elected to work with the company on the development of a new world-class concert grand. Over the next two years, Yamaha craftsmen-built prototypes that were evaluated by several highly regarded pianists; their feedback was then incorporated into further new designs. Finally, in November 1967, the CF concert grand piano was unveiled during a banquet at Tokyo’s Hotel Okura. Playing the piano on that occasion was Wilhelm Kempff, who went on to call it “one of the top pianos in the world.”

The CF, along with the simultaneously introduced C3 grand piano, took the world by storm — with a little help from an all-time great. Sviatoslav Richter’s first encounter with a CF occurred at a January 1969 concert in Padua, Italy. The Russian maestro chose to play one again later that year at the Menton Music Festival in France, after testing several pianos from different manufacturers during rehearsal. Richter played (and praised) Yamaha pianos from that point forward, marking the beginning of a relationship with the company that would last for the rest of his life.

1970 – 1979

During Sviatoslav Richter’s first Japanese tour in 1970, he performed at the Osaka World’s Fair on a CF bearing the serial number 1000000 — the one-millionth piano manufactured by Yamaha. One by one, European music festivals adopted the CF as their official piano, including the Antibes, Saint Tropez and Menton Festivals in France. Samson Francois, Tamás Vásáry, Byron Janis, Lívia Rév, Alexis Weissenberg and Georges Cziffra were among the many pianists who favored the CF, as its fame around the world continued to spread.

1980 – 1989

Another legendary pianist was drawn to Yamaha in 1980. Glenn Gould purchased two CFs that year and used them on the final three albums he made before his tragically early death in 1982 at the age of 50, including his second reading of J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations , now regarded as an all-time classic.

With new concert halls springing up all over Japan at that time, Yamaha craftsmen were inspired to develop a concert grand piano for a new generation. Building on the CF’s successes, they again went to work developing a series of prototypes, each of which was evaluated by top pianists. Krystian Zimerman was so pleased with his that he took it with him on a European tour. After further improvements, Yamaha craftsmen unveiled the CFIII in 1983. It was an instant hit, designated as the official piano of East Germany’s International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition, Poland’s International Chopin Piano Competition and the Soviet Union’s International Tchaikovsky Competition.

Yamaha also created a new kind of piano in the 1980s with the Disklavier, which made its American debut in 1987 (an earlier model called Piano Player was introduced in Japan in 1982). Originally designed as an acoustic piano outfitted with electronic controls for recording and playback, it has been updated and refined as technology has evolved in the decades since.

1990 – 1999

In 1991, Yamaha reached the impressive manufacturing milestone of five million pianos. The company also introduced the successor to its CF and CFIII concert grand pianos: the CFIIIS, which underwent two further upgrades in 1996 and 2000. At the Moscow Conservatory in July 1998, a young Russian pianist named Denis Matsuev took the International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition’s top prize performing on a CFIIIS.

2000 – 2009

The Japanese music world celebrated in 2002 when Ayako Uehara won the 12th International Tchaikovsky Competition. She was both the first Japanese winner and the first female winner in the contest’s history — and she did it on a Yamaha CFIIIS. A decade that marked the 100th anniversary of Yamaha’s piano production also saw the CFIIIS become the official piano of more than 20 major international competitions.

2010 – Present

After 19 years of research and development, the Yamaha CF Series concert grand piano, successor to the CFIII, made its debut in May 2010. Later that year, the winners of both the National (U.S.) and International Chopin Piano Competitions made history playing a CFX piano. In 2016, Yamaha celebrated the Disklavier’s 30th anniversary by releasing its seventh iteration, the ENSPIRE . That same year, Yamaha received a prestigious “Top 100 Global Innovator” award from Thomson Reuters for the third consecutive year. 2017 saw the launch of the SX Series , a premium grand piano line that incorporates A.R.E., the wood-reforming process used in top product lines of other Yamaha divisions.

What will come next? If the past hundred-plus years are anything to go by, you can be certain that Yamaha will continue to make pianos of the highest quality for a long time to come.

Click here for more information about Yamaha pianos.

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Where Are Yamaha Pianos Made?

by Sonja Lynne | Jan 15, 2022

Whether you’ve considered buying a musical instrument, a motorcycle or high quality AV equipment, you’ve no doubt run into Yamaha.  For over 135 years, Yamaha has built a global reputation for quality and reliability that few of its competitors have been able to match.  In fact, Yamaha is so prevalent in today’s musical landscape that one out of every FOUR instruments is a Yamaha!  That’s right.  Drums, flutes, guitars, pianos – you name it, Yamaha makes it… and people around the world take pride in owning their Yamaha instruments.

Elton John is one of 3600 musicians who proudly call themselves “Yamaha Artists.”

In the piano world, Yamaha has built a sterling reputation as one of the three most prominent names on the world’s stage.  …but how do Yamaha’s home pianos compare to those you hear Elton John (and countless others) play on stage today?  More specifically, where are Yamaha pianos made and what does their factory location tell you about their quality and long-term value?

A piano is a complex apparatus made from thousands of parts that need to work perfectly together for decades. “Cutting corners” anywhere along the production process will inevitably lead to an unreliable end result.  If left unchecked, these unreliable results will damage the company’s brand and lead potential consumers to the competition.  That’s why Yamaha has done something no other piano builder in the World has – they have achieved complete “vertical integration.”  Put simply, Yamaha has brought every aspect of a piano’s production – from maintaining and harvesting their own forests to operating their own plate foundry, to designing and implementing cutting-edge tools and processes that ensure every Yamaha piano is purpose built to the same standard.  Every other piano builder in the world purchases at least some of their materials from other companies.   Yamaha does everything “in-house.”  This means that – no matter where a Yamaha piano is assembled – Yamaha can perfectly control it’s quality and performance.

Yamaha pianos get all of their wood from Yamaha’s own mill in Kitami, Japan.

Everything begins with the most important (and expensive) component:  wood.  For more than half a century, Yamaha has harvested some of the world’s finest woods, processed them, and delivered them into the hands of skilled artisans.   All of Yamaha’s wood comes from their world-renowned Kitami Mill in Hokkaido, Japan. Yamaha is one of the only piano makers to operate their own mill. Which means their craftsmen have complete control over every piece of wood that goes into the pianos, from milling and aging to gluing and finishing. The Kitami Mill uses only the very best woods for Yamaha musical instruments and – of that wood – only the top 15 percent is chosen to become part of a Yamaha piano ‘s soundboard, back frame or rim.

Yamaha was the first company to use a vacuum shield mold process to create stronger, lighter, more durable plates.

Modern pianos are not made of wood alone, however.  Another critical component that has been revolutionized by Yamaha’s vertical integration is the cast iron plate.  The absolute best piano plates are a wonder of modern technology, combining the strength to withstand more than 40,000 lbs of string tension with a resonance that helps bring out the brilliance and beauty of each note.   That’s why finding the perfect frame for the pianos is not something they take lightly.  In fact, Yamaha is one of the only piano makers in the world to cast their own plates.  Every ounce of metal is cast, sanded and finished under the watchful eyes of expert Yamaha metallurgists in Yamaha’s Iwata, Japan foundry.  These metallurgists also work with Yamaha engineers to produce new technologies and procedures that increase production efficiency, quality and consistency.  Yamaha was the first company to use an advanced vacuum shield mold process called V-Pro to create stronger, lighter, more durable plates for their pianos.  Today, countless piano builders have followed suit – using Yamaha’s V-Pro process to create plates for their own pianos.  Even to this day, the precise process Yamaha uses to create the metal components for their musical instruments is considered top secret – as Yamaha continues to innovate.

Yamaha even makes its own piano wire – giving every model Yamaha piano a unique sound profile that is chosen by Yamaha’s constantly evolving R&D Department.  This R&D Department is the largest of any piano manufacturer in the world – giving Yamaha the freedom to innovate and the science to direct and develop the entire piano industry’s future.  From this incredible department of experienced industry professionals came the World-famous Disklavier , Silent Pianos , the first true Hybrid Pianos and the legendary Yamaha Clavinova .  Truly, Yamaha has built its more-than-a-century long reputation on building the finest pianos for every price point and for every need around the world.  That’s why over 3600 musicians today call themselves “Yamaha Artists,” including some of the most famous performers known around the world.

So – we know Yamaha piano wood comes from the Kitami Mill in Japan and the metal parts Yamaha uses in their pianos comes from their foundry in Iwata, Japan, but where are the pianos assembled?!  This can vary a bit by model.

Yamaha uses a mix of hand-craftsmanship and cutting-edge technology (as appropriate) to build their world-class pianos.

For over 50 years, the piano factory in Kakegawa, Japan has been Yamaha’s primary piano production facility.  This is where Yamaha master builders create the iconic CF, SX, CX and GC  series grand pianos as well as the YUS and U series uprights . The Kakegawa Factory also includes the Yamaha Concert Piano Workshop, where CFX concert grand pianos are handcrafted and meticulously voiced, regulated and tuned by master technicians. It is quite simply the most technologically advanced piano manufacturing facility anywhere in the world.

Yamaha’s world-famous P22 school pianos , the b-Series upright pianos and the best-selling GB1K pianos (including the DGB1K Yamaha Disklavier , and the GB1K-SC2 Yamaha Silent Piano ) are now assembled in Yamaha’s Indonesian piano factory.  (We say “assembled because ALL Yamaha grand piano soundboards are made in Japan – as are the metal parts for Yamaha pianos ) This plant opened on 11 square miles of land outside Jakarta, Indonesia in 1974 and they built their first Yamaha pianos in 1984.  Today, this plant employs over 1200 Yamaha workers – all of whom receive regular cross training from Yamaha’s Japanese piano craftsmen.  For nearly 40 years, Yamaha has built pianos in this plant for export to Europe, Japan and (now) the US as well.  ALL Yamaha factories operate under the same Quality Control standards with daily Quality Control meetings and constant cross training opportunities.  At Yamaha, it’s often said that the Indonesian Yamaha plant – including its custom materials, machinery and manufacturing processes – was made in Japan.

Thanks to Yamaha’s complete vertical integration, all Yamaha pianos are made to the same quality control standards.

So where are Yamaha pianos made today?  Ask anyone at Yamaha and they will give you the same answer:  Yamaha pianos are made in Yamaha!  Thanks to Yamaha’s complete vertical integration, it is the Company of Origin rather than the Country of Origin that matters .  No other piano manufacturer can operate with the precision and attention to detail that Yamaha can because Yamaha literally owns every piece in the production process.  Because of this, they can build the highest quality pianos for every sound profile and price point.  If you are interested or want more information, contact us via our live web chat, or visit one of our Arizona piano stores.  We are proud to be Arizona’s only full-line Yamaha piano dealer and we’d love to show you how Yamaha pianos can transform your home, classroom, sanctuary or concert stage!

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Piano Factory Tours & Piano Museums Around the World

Piano factory tours & museums around the world.

If you love pianos, why don’t you visit piano factories and museums around the world?

Yamaha’s Kakegawa Grand Piano Factory Tour & Innovation Road Museum (Japan)

Yamaha piano factory tour.

Address: Kakegawa Factory Harmony Plaza 1480 Ryoke, Kakegawa-shi, Shizuoka 436-0038, Japan

Information: >> Yamaha Piano Factory Tour (Yamaha’s Webpage, in Japanese only)

Yamaha’s Innovation Road Museum

Address: Building 21, Yamaha Corporation Headquarters 10-1 Nakaza-cho, Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 430-8650, Japan

Information: >> Innovation Road (Yamaha’s Webpage in English)

Kawai’s Ryuyo Grand Piano Factory (Japan)

Kawai’s ryuyo grand piano factory.

Address: 252, To Hiramatsu, Iwata-shi, Shizuoka 438-0216, Japan

Information: >> Kawai Ryuyo Factory (Kawai’s Website in Japanese)

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Steinway factory tour.

Address: 1 Steinway Pl, Astoria, NY 11105

Information: >> Steinway Factory Tours (Steinway’s Website)

Mason & Hamlin Piano Factory Tour (Near Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

Mason & hamlin piano factory tour.

Address: 35 Duncan Street, Haverhill, MA 01830

Information: >> Mason & Hamlin Piano Factory Tour (Mason & Hamlin’s Webpage)

Bösendorfer Salon (Vienna, Austria)

Bösendorfer salon.

Address: Bösendorferstraße 12 / Canovagasse 4 1010 Wien

Information: >> Bösendorfer Salon (Bösendorfer’s Website) >> Bösendorfer Piano Factory (Vienna Tourism Board’s Website)

Grotrian-Steinweg Factory Tour (Germany)

Grotrian-steinweg factory tour.

Address: Grotrian-Steinweg-Str.2 38112 Braunschweig

Information: >> Grotrian-Steinweg Piano Factory Tour (Grotrian-Steinweg’s Webpage)

Museum Petrof & Petrof Factory Tour (Czech Republic)

Museum petrof & petrof factory tour.

Address: PETROF, spol. s r.o. Na Brně 1955 500 06 Hradec Králové Czech Republic

Information: >> Petrof Come Visit Us (Petrof’s Webpage) >> Museum Petrof’s Museum Tours (Museum Petrof’s Webpage) >> Museum Petrof’s Factory Tours (Museum Petrof’s Webpage)

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Yamaha corporation is one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers.  founded in 1887 in hamamatsu city, yamaha started its journey as a piano and reed organ manufacturer through its founder mr torakusu yamaha. yamaha also manufactures high-quality audio and video equipment, semiconductors and other electronic components. the company is the largest shareholder of yamaha motor which started as an affiliated company but later became independent..

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• Company : Yamaha Corporation
• Foundation : 1887
• Location : Shizuoka Prefecture
• Main Business : Manufacturing of musical instruments, audio equipment and industrial machinery/components

Yamaha Corporation – Lean Characteristics

Quality management, 5s, visual management.

Yamaha Corporation is synonymous around the world for manufacturing quality musical instruments. The company has established a system to efficiently manufacture and supply products globally. Today, the company has its production and sales bases over 30 countries and regions around the world. Yamaha operates three factories in Japan for the production of musical instruments – all within Shizuoka Prefecture.

Yamaha is guided by the corporate philosophy of “Sharing Passion & Performance” and the company aspires to fulfil this mission by consistently providing high quality products and services that exceed their customers’ expectations.

The company controls the quality of its products based on its quality management system. The Quality Committee made up of quality control managers from different divisions including business and sales divisions deliberates on the corporate-wide quality policies, objectives and measures and deploys them to all business divisions as the directions of the president. Each division then sets its own quality objectives in line with the quality policies and objectives set by the president. The Corporation Quality Assurance Division checks the monthly quality reports submitted by each division and conducts quality audits to ensure every effort is made so that the target set by each division is fulfilled.

The company also has a good 5S implementation and visual management practices in place.

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From the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Rector Alexander Sokolov and Professor Vladimir Ovchinnikov visited Yamaha headquarters in Hamamatsu and the Piano factory in Kakegawa on October 19 - 20th. This tour was held while they stayed in Japan on business. Firstly, they met with the president of Yamaha Corporation, Takuya Nakata with whom they discussed their long relationships with Yamaha. Next day, they visited Kakegawa Factory to tour the Piano factory. It was the first visit after Piano factory moved from Hamamatsu. They were so impressed by the skills of our adept craftsmen and the technology at the production line. After the factory tour, they tried several grand pianos including prototypes, and gave us several comments. It was a great opportunity for us to continue further development of Pianos.

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