Registration Background
TOYOTEC headquarters building Registrated as a heritage representing historical building norm
TOYOTEC headquarters building
(The old telephone relay station building in Toyokawa)
TOYOTEC headquarters warehouse Registrated as a heritage as a part of the historical landscapes in Japan.
TOYOTEC headquarters warehouse
(The old telephone relay station warehouse in Toyokawa)
The Story Behind TOYOTEC HQ Building
TOYOTEC headquarters building
In Japan, the beginning of the telephone service in the general public is in 1889. These days, there was the limitation of the talking range due to using the aerial cable. The loaded cable and vacuum tube repeater was introduced to resolve this problem and to achieve this long-distance calls. The first toll call using the loaded cable for long-distance from Tokyo to Kobe was opened in 1928. At this time, 9 telephone relay stations were built as a facility of amplifying the sound by using a vacuum tube repeater. Our headquarters building is one of them. In addition, many loading coils are essential devices to halt the decay of the voice currents, and those loading coils were located at regular intervals between the telephone relay stations. The turret was made of reinforced concrete for it. The telephone relay station building and the total of 3 turrets for the loading coils remain in Aichi Prefecture. There is the telephone relay station building and the turret for loading coils in Toyokawa. The other 2 turrets are in Toyohashi.
The telephone relay station in Toyokawa opened in July 1927. As a telephone relay station, the third earliest opening following Kameyama and Ashigara. The location of the telephone relay station building in Toyokawa is at 600m northeast from Toyokawa Inari shrine, and the building is currently being used as a TOYOTEC headquarters building. After the abolition of this telephone relay station in April 1952, Toyokawa Chamber of Commerce and Industry purchased from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation in November 1963, and Toyokawa city received donations from Toyokawa Chamber in the following year. After that, TOYOTEC purchased it from Toyokawa city in 1985. and to the present.
Our headquarters building is the two-story reinforced concrete, and remains the appearance at the time constructed except for the part of north side 2nd floor expanded. Total floor area is 612.45 sqm in the era of the telephone relay station. In that era, the first floor had the power room, the battery room and the night duty room, and the second floor had the machine room installed with the repeater. For this reason, the pillars is closely aligned in the building, the floor height is more than 4m. The building has no interior decoration. The building was renovated to use as a office room, currently it is used as a TOYOTEC headquarters building.
The appearance of the building is characterized by the horizontal eaves of the roof and tall narrow window, the stud and pillars with repeat type. In particular, the pillar and stud exposed on the outside are stopped in front of the roof eave, which made the space between the pillar and the stud. In addition, like a stair-step to the edge of the pillar, it can be seen the design of the Ministry of Communications at the time. It is believed that there was a standard specification to construct the telephone relay station building. Because the design and architecture, the building size and room placement is very similar to the 1st telephone relay station building in Kameyama.
TOYOTEC headquarters warehouse
The integrated research report of modern heritage (Buildings etc.) in Aichi Prefecture. Board of Aichi Prefectural Education in 2005
This book was introduced by the integrated research report of modern heritage (Buildings etc.) including representative 200 modern heritages in Aichi Prefecture
TOYOTEC Headquarters
Address :
FAX: +81 533 85 1458.
From Tokyo (Narita Airport): About 4.5 hours.
2. Take Tokaido-Shinkansen from Tokyo, change trains at Toyohashi.
3. Take Iida-line from Toyohashi, and get off at Toyokawa
4. Take a taxi to TOYOTEC.
From Osaka (Kansai Airport): About 3.5 hours.
2. Take Tokaido Shinkansen from Shin Osaka, and get off at Toyohashi.
3. Take Iida line from Toyohashi, and get off at Toyokawa.
4. Take a taxi to TOYOTEC.
From Nagoya (Central Japan Airport): About 2.0 hours.
2. Take Tokaido-Shinkansen from Nagoya to Toyohashi and change trains.
3. Take Iida-line from Toyohashi, and get off at Toyokawa
4. Take a taxi to TOYOTEC