Miyata

Miyata Cycle Co., Ltd.
Native name
株式会社ミヤタサイクル
Company typePrivate (K.K)
IndustryLeisure products
Founded1890 (1890)
FounderEisuke Miyata
Headquarters,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Shinichiro Takaya
(President)
Products
OwnerMorita Holdings Corporation (30%)
Merida Bikes (70%)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references

Miyata is a Japanese manufacturer of bicycles, unicycles and fire extinguishers. The company has been in operation since 1890. Miyata was also one of the first producers of motorcycles in Japan under the name Asahi. The Asahi AA was the first mass-produced motorcycle in Japan.

Miyata claims to have been the first Japanese manufacturer of flash-butt welded frame tubes (1946) and the first to use electrostatic painting (1950).