company profile
Main services of 'Youji no Shiro' are designs and surveillances of buildings, renovation and interiors of preschools. We also provide branding consultation services for preschools.

'Youji no Shiro', which means 'The Castle for Children' in Japanese, is the name of a section of Hibino Sekkei Architecutre, based in Kanagawa, Japan. The company was founded in 1972 and had launched the section that specialises in the design of spaces for children in 1991, reflecting the rapidly altering social situation. By that time, the declining birth rate had become a serious issue in Japan. With fewer children continuing to develop, we became to think that existing preschool architecture where classrooms of same sizes and shapes were lined up weren't just right. Instead of those characterless architecture, we thought what's needed are spaces that is sincerely considered, designed and built for the people who work there, people in the neighbourhood and, of course, children who use there. Believing that, we had built up more and more work in the field of space design for children. During our 33 years in operation, we have created approximately 580 spaces for children all over Japan. The spaces include newly built architecture, converted architecture, interiors and the like. Recently the area of our service is expanding to the world.
Company Name Hibino Sekkei
Address Head office: 4-18-1 Iiyamaminami, Atsugi city, Kanagawa, JAPAN ZIP 243-0218
Branch office: 1-7-3-3F Asahi-cho, Atsugi city, Kanagawa, JAPAN ZIP 243-0014
Branch office: 101-3F 302, 46-1 Liede Rd.Tianhe Guangzhou Guangdong, China ZIP 510623
TEL +81 46 241 3339  FAX +81 46 242 3266
Date of Founding 13th July 1972
Business Outline Architectual Design and Supervising, Design
Development,
Evaluation of Seismic Capacity, Reinforcement Design
CEO and Chairman
Taku Hibino
COO Yoko Isaji
Executive Mari Sasaki
Shota Suzuki
Operating officer Takashi Uragi
Yoshinobu Maeshiro
Takahiro Aoki
Executive Director Taku Hibino(Director of Youji no Shiro)