List of Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers

This is a list of Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers — as well as brands with models manufactured in Japan.

Japanese Bicycle Brands and Manufacturers

3 Rensho Amanda (Tokyo) Amuna (written "AMVNA", manufactured by Sendai-based Matsumoto Cycle) A.N. Design Works (Core Japan, Tokyo) Araya ARES Asuka (Nara) Baramon (Kurume) Campania Cherubim (Machida, Tokyo) Crafted (Fukui) Deki Doppo, by Simworks Elan Emme Akko (Miyako) Focus (a mid-1980s brand produced by Araya) Fuji Fury Ganwell (Kyoto) Hirose (Kodaira, Tokyo) Holks Honjo (Tottori) Ikesho Iribe (Nara) Kabuki, see Bridgestone Kalavinka (made by Tsukumo, Tokyo) Kaze and Kaze Race Bicycles Kobe limited, Kobe, Japan Kusano Engineering (Tokyo) Kyoso (Tokyo) Level (Tokyo—Established in 1980) Lightning (made by Inazuma Cycle) Makino Cycle Maruishi Marukin (White Sails) apparently a subsidiary of Hodaka Corp. Mikado Kiyo Miyazawa (Tokyo) Miyata Japon (introduced by Miyata in 2011, produced at its factory in Chigasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture ) Miyuki (Tokyo) Mypallas Mizutani (ミズタニ自転車株式会社) (Tokyo) (Established in 1924)mizutanibike Nagasawa (Osaka—Established in 1976) Nakamichi Noko Ono Panasonic Pegasus (Chofu, Tokyo) Pie Polaris Project M (Tsukuba, Ibaraki) Raizin (Kiryu, Gunma) Ravanello (made by Takamura, Tokyo) Reminton Rinsei Lab (Tochigi—Established in 2012) Royal Norton Royce Union San Rensho (3Rensho) Sannow Sekai Sekine Shimazaki (Tokyo) Shogun Silk Skyway Smith Soma SR (Sakae Ringyo), purchased later by Mori Industries, merged with Suntour Suntour, purchased later by Mori Industries, merged with SR Takara Tano Terry Toei (Kawaguchi, Saitama) Tokyobike Toyo Tsunoda (Nagoya, Japan — also manufactured Lotus brand) Tubagra Vigore (Kyoto) Vlaams Vortex star ( usmans) Vogue (made by Orient, Kamakura) Zebrakenko Zunow (Osaka)

Manufacturers Alps Bicycle Industrial Co., Ltd., associated with Uchikanda Bicycle Shop in Tokyo from 1918 until its closure in 2007; specialized in made-to-order touring bicycles and equipment Araya, a manufacturer of bicycle rims and of the Focus bicycle brand Bridgestone (variously marketed as Anchor, C.Itoh, Kabuki) CatEye (famous for cycling parts and accessories; also manufactures exercise bikes) Kawamura Cycle, Kobe, Japan (manufactured Nishiki and Azuki brands for an American company) Kuwahara, headquartered in Osaka and producer of both bicycle brands and parts Miyata (has produced both domestic- and foreign-brand bicycles since the 19th century) Otomo (produced several OEM bikes for different brands) Panasonic Cycle Technology, Panasonic Company's bicycle subsidiary Shimano (produces bicycle parts)

Foreign Brands Manufactured in Japan American Eagle, later Nishiki (a line of bikes manufactured for export into the US by Kobe-based Kawamura Cycle Company from 1965 until 1989; owned by WCC, West Coast Cycle) American Star (a brand manufactured in Japan in the 1960s and early 1970s) Apollo (a Canadian brand manufactured by Kuwahara, marketed by Fred Deeley Imports of Vancouver) Azuki (a line of bikes manufactured for export into the US by Kobe-based Kawamura Cycle Company; owned, along with the Nishiki line, by WCC or West Coast Cycle) Bianchi (certain models manufactured in Japan) Centurion (manufactured in Japan for export into the US by American company Western States Import Company or WSI; the brand and base of manufacture were consolidated with WSI's other brand Diamond Back in 1990 until the company's closure in 2000.) Diamond Back (manufactured in Japan for export into the US by American company Western States Import Company or WSI between 1979 and 1984; consolidated with WSI's other brand Centurion in 1990 until the company closed in 2000.) Peugeot (certain models manufactured in Japan) Puch (certain models manufactured in Japan) Raleigh Bicycle Company (certain models manufactured in Japan by Bridgestone in the early 1980s) Suteki, a brand marketed by Sears and manufactured by Panasonic Company's bicycle subsidiary Panasonic Cycle Technology Le Tour (manufactured in Japan for the American Schwinn company) Lotus (manufactured by Nagoya-based Tsunoda Bicycle Corporation for an American company from 1980 until the end of the decade) World Traveler (road bike manufactured for Schwinn by Panasonic Company's bicycle subsidiary Panasonic Cycle Technology in the 1970s) World Voyager (touring bike manufactured for Schwinn by Panasonic Company's bicycle subsidiary Panasonic Cycle Technology in the 1970s) Univega (an American brand manufactured in Japan from the 1970s until the late 1980s)

List of Japanese bicycle brands and manufacturers

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