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We are a premier Japanese Destination Management Company (DMC) with over 70 years of expertise in both leisure travel and MICE. From your arrival to your departure, we provide seamless, bespoke coordination to ensure a truly exceptional experience in Japan. Your satisfaction—and that of your esteemed guests—is our highest priority. Entrust your journey to Hankyu, where excellence meets hospitality.

February 22, 1948
Launched airline agency business as the agency division of "Hankyu Corporation"
October 5, 1960
Split from Hankyu Corporation and launched as "Hankyu Kokusai Kotsu-sha"
April 1, 1962
Merged with a sister company “Hankyu Kotsu-sha”, whose main business was domestic travel, and changed the company name to “Hankyu Kotsu-sha” the next day, on April 2.
April 28, 1964
“Hankyu Kotsu-sha Tokyo Building” completion A
January 18, 1977
Established first overseas subsidiary as a travel business, Hankyu Express USA, Inc.
April 1, 2005
Became a core operating company with the establishment of holding company "Hankyu Holdings, Inc."
October 1, 2006
With the business integration of "Hankyu Holdings, Inc." and "Hanshin Electric Railway Co., Ltd.", became a core operating company of "Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc."
October 1, 2007
Launched as "Hankyu Kotsu-sha Ryoko Jigyobunkatsu Junbi Kabushikigaisha", in order to succeed the travel business of "Hankyu Kotsu-sha" via an absorption-type split
April 1, 2008
With the move of the former "Hankyu Kotsu-sha" to an intermediate holding company and change of name to “Hankyu Hanshin Kotsu-sha Holdings”, the travel business and the international transportation business split, and the company was re-launched as travel business operator "Hankyu Kotsu-sha"
April 1, 2010
With the reorganization of travel business of intermediate holding company “Hankyu Hanshin Kotsu-sha Holdings, Inc.”, the company launched as the media-sales-centric, new “Hankyu Kotsu-sha” and the business-travel-centric “Hankyu Hanshin Business Travel"
April 1, 2013
Became the core business company of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings's travel Business