Craftsmanship at Toy-Factory is built on the professionalism of experienced producers with the use of the latest manufacturing facilities in existence in Japan.
There is a phrase which goes "All start at Toy Factory", our code of conduct since the foundation of Toy Factory in 1995. Toy Factory started at a site in Kani City of Gifu Prefecture, by modifying one Toyota Hi-Ace. This led to the later creations of such vehicles models as LINDBERGH, LAND TEPEE, TOY’S BOX, GT, MILAN, BADEN, ZARA, CORDOBA, ALTA MODA series and other advanced campervans in succession. On each campervan, there are respectively different uniqueness while they are all also innovative products that characterize the period of their times.
“No compromise in quality” echoes innovations of seasoned crafts. This is what holds up Toy Factory today and is the commitment to the future as well. We do not create mediocrity. I believe that the innovative development technologies at Toy Factory are always at the latest and at its best.
Toy-Factory Co., Ltd. Chairman & CEOAkifumi Fujii
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Toy Factory reached the 21st anniversary in August 2016; thanks to the support for those provided. We were able to grow the dream that started in a little workshop in Gifu Prefecture to the extent we find ourselves in at the moment is because of the understanding and cooperation provided by our customers and our business partners. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the kindness we received, from the bottom of our hears.
At the time we started our business back in 1995 we did not have the type of production organization we have today. We strove on through many of trial-and-errors in the little work site we had, devoted in our creation, driven only by our desire to create better campervans. It was indeed a very small workshop, but we always had in our mind, though somewhat obscure as it might have been, our aim of "creating models of global quality and then reaching out to the world".
To begin with, my odyssey with campervans did not start from my work. My first encounter with a campervan was the hand-crafted van made by my father, on which we traveled before I got into an elementary school. I remember back in 1977 I was surprised to find out that all my friends I had back in those days always stayed at hotels and inns when they went on family trips. I do recall being a bit puzzled why we always slept in that van instead. The traveling style of my family was to lay down a carpet, as well as a bed and curtains in a green Nissan Caravan. This was an innovative traveling mode at the time, being a combination of a vehicle and a triangular tent.
I remember tourists finding our vehicle quite unusual and came to see it at rest stops on highways.
The style of accommodation involving staying overnight in a vehicle, what might be called an RV and camping, was in our vehicle long before what is referred to in Japan as auto-camping ever came about.
The hand made modification of the first Nissan Caravan into a campervan started as my father's hobby, followed by Isuzu Fargo, Hi-Ace and the like, all homemade campervans. It probably was a fun world of hobby for my father, who was running an interior business. The ceiling and walls of our van was already fitted tightly with thermal insulation back in those days. I was having fun traveling as a family in a vehicle that can be considered a predecessor to campervans from my earliest recollections, the experience of having fabricated campervans with my family, were good old memories for me, as well as the origin for the establishment of Toy Factory later in my life.
There are many models of van conversions available from Toy Factory but there is a concept that is familiar throughout the models. That concept is to carry as much load as possible and offer accommodation in which people can sleep with comfort. I learned from my experience each time I traveled that these were the most important aspects of a campervan.
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Our customers have praised our work on "properly installed thermal insulation on campervan." Our meticulous concern for thermal insulation, which is not in view of our customers, comes from our own experience.
As we travel on long tours to Hokkaido in summer and to the mountains in winter, we at times encounter environments in the vehicle that can be quite severe. Cold air coming in from windows or freezing cold vehicle body, while on the other hand we have scorching heat of summer. We’ve been through “hard-to-spend in the van” experiences in the real field. The van conversions of Toy Factory have been the first of the industry in many aspects in the past and have always evolved and improved, which included such features called triple thermal insulation, incorporation of solar systems, acrylic windows and even fitting of plasma clusters in our pursuit for comfort.
In the year 2008, as we were striving hard to create campervans based on standards in Europe and the United States, which lead the world of motor homes, we were happy to be told by an automobile manufacturer that we had fabricated the highest number of van conversions in Japan. We realized that the orientation of Toy Factory with simple and honest pursuit was not a wrong direction to take and that our efforts were certainly being appreciated by our customers, we are truly delighted and celebrating with the news.
We of course could not be complacent with all that. we have been involved with our challenge of achieving "craftsmanship and quality" of all Japanese standards, based on partnerships with major manufacturers of Japan, such as Toyota Motor Corporation, sharp Corporation and KYB Corporation in the recent years.
On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of our founding we brace ourselves and stand ready for the next 20 years and continue to deliver products that are made with no compromises, according to our motto, "new design, advanced functions, superior environmental strategies all start at Toy-Factory".
There is a level of quality we must fulfill. There is a style we simply must insist on.
In the past as much as it is at the present, these are our meticulous concerns, our style at Toy-Factory.
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We are sometimes praised by our customers for "properly installed thermal insulation on camper van models supplied by Toy-Factory". Our meticulous concerns for thermal insulation, which is not in view of our customers, comes from our own experience. As we travel on long tours to Hokkaido in summer and to the mountains in winter, we at times encounter environments in the vehicle that can be quite severe at times. Cold air coming in from windows or freezing cold vehicle body, while on the other hand we have scorching heat of summer. There were instances when we truly felt that conditions were harsh. The van conversions of Toy-Factory have been the first of the industry in many aspects in the past and have always evolved and improved, which included such features as triple thermal insulation, incorporation of solar systems, acrylic windows and even fitting of plasma clusters in our pursuit for comfort.
In the year 2008 as we were striving hard to create camper vans based on standards in Europe and the United States, which lead the world of motor homes, we were happy to be told by a automobile manufacturer that we had fabricated the highest number of van conversions in Japan. We realized that the orientation of Toy-Factory with simple and honest pursuit was not a wrong direction to take and that our efforts were certainly being appreciated by our customers, we became aware of these things and were truly delighted with the news.
We of course could not be complacent with all that. we have been involved with our challenge of achieving "craftsmanship and quality" of all Japanese standards, based on partnerships with major manufacturers of Japan, such as Toyota Motor Corporation, sharp Corporation and KYB Corporation in the recent years.
On the occasion of the 21st anniversary of our founding we brace ourselves and stand ready for the next 20 years and continue to deliver products that are made with no compromises, according to our motto, "new design, advanced functions, superior environmental strategies all start at Toy-Factory".
There is a level of quality we must fulfill. There is a style we simply must insist on.
In the past as much as it is at the present, these are our meticulous concerns, our style at Toy-Factory.
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