Strengthening the motorcycle business through motorcycle dealerships, private-label products, and vehicle inspections
First written in FY2019. 18 of 23 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2021-Q2. Latest entry: 2026-07-31.
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- 2026-07-31AdvancedEarnings
「In April 2026, we opened Bike-kan Kanazawa-Nonoichi store in Ishikawa Prefecture and Wise Road Kanazawa-Nonoichi store in Ishikawa Prefecture, and in May we opened the Vehicle Inspection and Tire 2 Rinkan Minami-Machida store in Tokyo. In April 2026, we closed Bike-kan 246 Tsukushino store in Tokyo.」
The company disclosed specific progress in openings and closures related to its two-wheel and sports-cycle businesses. - FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Kanazawa 2Rinkan and Kawasaki Plaza Ishikawa in July 2025, Bike-kan Fuji store in October, Y's Road Oimachi store in November, Y's Road Senzoku store in January 2026, and Yokohama Totsuka 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Yokohama Totsuka store in February, for a total of 7 stores, and closed Y's Road Ochanomizu store in April 2025 and Y's Road Higashiyamato store in November, for a total of 2 stores.」
We opened 7 stores and closed 2 stores in the motorcycle and sports cycle businesses. At the end of the fiscal year, there were 65 2Rinkan stores, 78 Bike-kan stores and 28 Y's Road stores. - FY2026-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Kanazawa 2Rinkan and Kawasaki Plaza Ishikawa in Ishikawa Prefecture in July 2025, for a total of 2 stores, and closed Y's Road Ochanomizu store in Tokyo in April 2025.」
In the motorcycle business, we opened Kanazawa 2Rinkan and Kawasaki Plaza Ishikawa, expanding the motorcycle sales and service network. Meanwhile, we closed Y's Road Ochanomizu store. - FY2025Expansion of the scope of the motorcycle businessAnnual report
「⑤ Strengthening the motorcycle business: In the motorcycle businesses operated through 2Rinkan, Bike-kan and Y's Road, we will implement measures including increasing the number of stores, upgrading facilities, developing personnel and increasing earnings at existing stores, with the aim of providing total services covering Yellow Hat and the motorcycle businesses.」
The scope of the business has been expanded from strengthening the motorcycle business centered on 2Rinkan and Bike-kan to include Y's Road, with increasing the number of stores, upgrading facilities, developing personnel and increasing earnings at existing stores identified as measures. - FY2025-H1AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Kawasaki Plaza Hakata in Fukuoka Prefecture in April 2024, Bike-kan Konan store in Kanagawa Prefecture in May, and Wakayama 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Wakayama Shioya store in Wakayama Prefecture in September, for a total of 4 stores. We also opened the Yellow Hat Body Repair and Vehicle Inspection Center Chitose store in Hokkaido in August 2024.」
We opened a total of 4 motorcycle stores, including Kawasaki Plaza, Bike-kan and 2Rinkan, expanding the sales network for the motorcycle business. We also added a body repair and vehicle inspection center. - FY2024AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Kawasaki Plaza Yamagata and Kawasaki Plaza Akita in June 2023, Kurume 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Kurume Inter store in August, Hamamatsu 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Hamamatsu Aratama store in September, Bike-kan Misato Kamihikina store in October, Bike-kan Komaki store in November, Bike-kan Oyama store in February 2024, and Koriyama 2Rinkan, Bike-kan Koriyama Nishinouchi store and Bike-kan Musashino store in March, for a total of 12 stores.」
We opened 12 motorcycle equipment and motorcycle sales stores, expanding the network to 62 2Rinkan stores and 70 Bike-kan stores. - FY2024-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Kawasaki Plaza Yamagata and Kawasaki Plaza Akita in June 2023, Kurume 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Kurume Inter store in August, and Hamamatsu 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Hamamatsu Aratama store in September, for a total of 6 stores. We also opened the 2Rinkan Yellow Hat Vehicle Inspection Center Zama Plant in Kanagawa Prefecture in April and closed Yellow Hat Coin Car Wash Hachiken in Hokkaido in September.」
We opened a total of 6 Kawasaki Plaza, 2Rinkan and Bike-kan stores, expanding the motorcycle sales network. The opening of the Zama Plant of the motorcycle vehicle inspection center is also reiterated. - FY2024-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Kawasaki Plaza Yamagata in Yamagata Prefecture and Kawasaki Plaza Akita in Akita Prefecture, both authorized Kawasaki motorcycle dealers, in June 2023, for a total of 2 stores. We also opened the 2Rinkan Yellow Hat Vehicle Inspection Center Zama Plant in Kanagawa Prefecture in April 2023.」
For the motorcycle business, we opened 2 Kawasaki Plaza stores in June 2023 and a motorcycle vehicle inspection center in April 2023. We are concretely expanding our motorcycle sales and service locations. - FY2023AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Bike-kan Chiba Tsurusawa store in Chiba Prefecture and Bike-kan Handa store in Aichi Prefecture in September 2022, and Gifu 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Gifu Nagar store, both in Gifu Prefecture, in February 2023, for a total of 4 stores, and closed Hachioji 2Rinkan in Tokyo in April 2022.」
We opened 4 motorcycle equipment and motorcycle sales stores. At the end of the fiscal year, there were 59 2Rinkan stores and 63 Bike-kan stores. - FY2023-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Bike-kan Chiba Tsurusawa store in Chiba Prefecture and Bike-kan Handa store in Aichi Prefecture in September 2022, for a total of 2 stores, and closed Hachioji 2Rinkan in Tokyo in April 2022.」
We opened 2 Bike-kan stores in September 2022, expanding the store network for the motorcycle business. - FY2023-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Bike-kan Chiba Tsurusawa store in Chiba Prefecture and Bike-kan Handa store in Aichi Prefecture in September 2022, for a total of 2 stores, and closed Hachioji 2Rinkan in Tokyo in April 2022.」
We opened 2 Bike-kan stores in September 2022, expanding the store network for the motorcycle business. Bike-kan had 62 stores and 2Rinkan had 58 stores. - FY2023-Q1RestatedAnnual report
「In particular, the company proceeded with measures to expand sales of consumables, centered on tires, expand installation and servicing work and maintenance services, and further strengthen its motorcycle business, all of which are part of its management strategy.」
We continue to pursue the strengthening of the motorcycle business, where demand is increasing, as a management strategy alongside the expansion of tire and maintenance services. - FY2022AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Atsugi 2Rinkan in April 2021, Bike-kan Atsugi Inter store in May, Fushimi 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Fushimi store in June, Ibaraki 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Ibaraki Ayukawa store in July, Nagasaki Togitsu 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Nagasaki Togitsu store in November, Fuji 2Rinkan and Bike-kan Fujieda Nishi store in February 2022, and Bike-kan Funabashi Narashino store in March, for a total of 11 stores.」
We opened 11 motorcycle equipment and motorcycle sales stores during the fiscal year, expanding the network to 59 2Rinkan stores and 60 Bike-kan stores. - FY2022-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Atsugi 2Rinkan in Kanagawa Prefecture in April 2021, Bike-kan SOX Atsugi Inter store in Kanagawa Prefecture in May, Fushimi 2Rinkan in Kyoto Prefecture and Bike-kan SOX Fushimi store in Kyoto Prefecture in June, Ibaraki 2Rinkan in Osaka Prefecture and Bike-kan SOX Ibaraki Ayukawa store in Osaka Prefecture in July, and Nagasaki Togitsu 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX Nagasaki Togitsu store, both in Nagasaki Prefecture, in November, for a total of 8 stores, and closed Kyoto 2Rinkan in May and Takatsuki 2Rinkan in Osaka Prefecture in June, for a total of 2 stores. In addition, we opened the 2Rinkan Yellow Hat Vehicle Inspection Center Ibaraki Plant in Osaka Prefecture in July 2021 to secure more motorcycle vehicle inspection business.」
We opened 8 motorcycle-related stores and closed 2 stores. In addition, we opened a vehicle inspection center to secure more motorcycle vehicle inspection business, advancing the rollout of stores and service locations in the motorcycle business. - FY2022-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「In July 2021, the 2 Rinkan Yellow Hat Vehicle Inspection Center Ibaraki Plant (Osaka Prefecture) was opened to increase the number of two-wheeler vehicle inspections acquired.」
As a measure to strengthen the motorcycle business, we opened a motorcycle vehicle inspection center in July 2021 and advanced the rollout of locations to secure vehicle inspection business. - FY2022-Q1AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Atsugi 2Rinkan in Kanagawa Prefecture in April 2021, Bike-kan SOX Atsugi Inter store in Kanagawa Prefecture in May, Fushimi 2Rinkan in Kyoto Prefecture and Bike-kan SOX Fushimi store in Kyoto Prefecture in June, for a total of 4 stores, and closed Kyoto 2Rinkan in Kyoto Prefecture in May and Takatsuki 2Rinkan in Osaka Prefecture in June, for a total of 2 stores.」
From April through June 2021, we opened 4 motorcycle-related stores and closed 2 stores. The rollout of 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX stores is progressing concretely. - FY2021-Q3AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Bike-kan SOX Takarazuka store in Hyogo Prefecture in July 2020, Matsuyama 2Rinkan in Ehime Prefecture, Bike-kan SOX Nagoya Minato store in Aichi Prefecture, Bike-kan SOX Matsuyama store in Ehime Prefecture in October, and Takamatsu 2Rinkan in Kagawa Prefecture in November, for a total of 5 stores, and closed Bike-kan SOX Saitama Chuo store in Saitama Prefecture in June.」
We opened 5 motorcycle-related stores and closed 1 store. Based on the store openings through the first half of the previous fiscal year, the rollout of 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX stores has progressed further. - FY2021-Q2AdvancedAnnual report
「Outside the Yellow Hat stores, we opened Bike-kan SOX Takarazuka store in Hyogo Prefecture in July 2020, Matsuyama 2Rinkan in Ehime Prefecture and Bike-kan SOX Nagoya Minato store in Aichi Prefecture in September, for a total of 3 stores, and closed Bike-kan SOX Saitama Chuo store in Saitama Prefecture in June.」
From June through September 2020, we opened 3 motorcycle-related stores and closed 1 store. Strengthening the business through new motorcycle store openings is progressing concretely. - FY2020RestatedAnnual report
「To strengthen the motorcycle business, we will open new 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX stores and seek to increase earnings at existing stores by expanding sales of private-label motorcycle products and securing vehicle inspection business.」
We continue to strengthen the motorcycle business by opening 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX stores, expanding sales of private-label motorcycle products and securing vehicle inspection business. - FY2019First statedAnnual report
「To strengthen the motorcycle business, we will open new 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX stores and seek to increase earnings at existing stores by expanding sales of private-label motorcycle products and securing vehicle inspection business.」
For the motorcycle business, new 2Rinkan and Bike-kan SOX stores, expanded sales of private-label motorcycle products and securing vehicle inspection business are presented for the first time as standalone, specific measures to strengthen the business.