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Title: Address for Suzuki HQ in Japan? I'm goin...
Post by: tmckay on November 06, 2003, 02:57:56 PM
Anybody know the address of a Suzuki plant in the Tokyo area?  I thought it would be fun to visit.

Or Honda or Kawaski for that matter :)

Trev
Title: Address for Suzuki HQ in Japan? I'm goin...
Post by: MstrsLilBrat on November 06, 2003, 03:54:54 PM
OK... I checked their home page.

HQ is

300 Takatsuka (might be called Takazuka)
Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 432-8611

** From Tokyo, it takes about 2 hrs to get there by an express train

Tokyo branch is

Suzuki Building Higashi-Shinbashi
2-2-8 Higashi-Shinbashi
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0021 (but I do not think they have a factory here.)

Here is the website (but in Japanese of course)
http://www.suzuki.co.jp/index.html


Enjoy visiting Japan !!
*~Lil Brat~*
Title: Address for Suzuki HQ in Japan? I'm goin...
Post by: tmckay on November 07, 2003, 07:30:37 AM
Thank you very much.  I'll have to check the map and see how close I might be; I'll be in a suburb of Tokyo.  I've got a slow day next week :)

Trev
Title: Address for Suzuki HQ in Japan? I'm goin...
Post by: MstrsLilBrat on November 08, 2003, 11:52:27 PM
My pleasure!!

Oh, sorry... HQ is ...
takes less than 2 hrs from Tokyo by an express train.

Do you have a plan to go to any motorcycle accessory shops??

I am sure that you will have fun in Japan!!!!!!!  :thumb:
Title: Address for Suzuki HQ in Japan? I'm goin...
Post by: tmckay on November 11, 2003, 01:41:47 PM
I just turned my email/network on last night  :)

So far, it is all meetings.  I may have some time Friday night or Saturday before I come home, hopefully.

I did learn from a transplanted American on the train that the Japanese licensing requirements are very difficult.  He has a license for 400cc bikes, but he said it is very difficult to be licensed for the "big" motorcycles (I assume he means a liter or so).  He knows people who have taken the test 7 or 8 times and still failed.

This sounds like it might be even more difficult than in Europe.  I think the US should pass some kind of graduated licensing law as well; it is too easy to make mistakes and more power just exacerbates the problem.

Trev