Tsuchiya Kaban currently employs 200 craftspeople in the Tokyo Atelier. These are the people responsible for bringing designs to life, each one with special skills and a variety of experience to bring to the table. Some of our leather crafters have decades of experience, and in our culture we believe that it’s important to teach each other and carry on traditions, so they also mentor the next generation of makers.

Each bag passes through the hands of these people, our family. We’d like for you to meet some of the special people in our Tsuchiya-Kaban Family.

Efficiency is also important to her, "I have to analyze a design sketch and plan each step of that construction process and make sure it all flows, if there is ease in construction it translates into superior quality.”

A leather bag isn’t a product that is made by one person alone. Instead, specialized leather crafters are responsible for the production of each part in accordance with the workflow. This is exactly how to go about achieving the two goals of consistent quality and a sizable manufacturing volume.

"I am grateful for my team here at Tsuchiya Kaban, we all take pride in the things we make, we work together and it’s a pleasure to learn from each other. Our wish is for that feeling to travel all the way to our customers.”