Name of company: Kissako Inc.
Incorporation: June 2023 (Founded in 2014)
Location: N&EBLD.6F, 1-12-4 Ginza, Chuo, Tokyo
CEO: Tsubasa Kaieda
Business: Development, operation and sales of travel activities for visitors to Japan
Clients: hotel concierges, travel agents (DMCs / Agents)
Areas of expertise: sushi, history, trivia, linguistics, Chinese, kimono, hunting, chorus, golf, badminton, western philosophy, wine, whisky, beer, calligraphy and lacquerware making.
Tsubasa Kaieda
VIP concierge and food specialist
Born in Tokyo in 1991. Graduated from Hitotsubashi University and started his own business in various fields from the age of 19. After working in industries such as trading, education, web advertising, SaaS and aviation, he started creating experiences in inbound tourism market in 2014.
In the process of creating experiences, he had the opportunity to work at a tuna brokerage in the Tsukiji market, and through this experience he started offering insider experiences for VIP visitors to Japan from around 2017. Since then, he has expanded his business with hotels and travel agencies for high net-worth individuals, and has also attended UHNWIs and international celebrities.
As a specialist in sushi-related tourism experiences, he had attended a cumulative total of approximately 10,000 people by 2020, but the COVID disaster forced him out of business and into an IT company. After achieving sales of 100 million yen in the first year, he was promoted to an executive position and became involved in the management of the IT company, while also restarting the tourism activity business in 2023 in response to a resurgence of enquiries.
In reopening the business, he is expanding activities into areas other than sushi.