About
Takujiro Oto is a travel startup founder serving as Founder and CEO at Drive Japan Inc., a Tokyo company founded in 2018 that publishes self-drive road trip itineraries and driving maps for visitors to Japan. He earlier worked in online advertising in Tokyo, then spent four and a half years at a Singapore-based inbound travel company, where he worked as a tour conductor and salesperson on rental car tours of Japan. His profile lists selection for the JXTG Accelerator in 2019 and as a Japan Tourism Agency inbound venture in 2023. He is a Founder Institute graduate and is listed as a mentor for Founder Institute's Japan programs. Takujiro brings a founder-operator perspective on inbound tourism, travel product design, online marketing, and building a service in Japan for overseas customers. The role provides direct exposure to how international visitors plan and buy travel, and to what it takes to turn field experience into a digital product. Takujiro is particularly relevant to conversations around inbound tourism, travel startups, reaching overseas customers from Japan, and taking part in accelerator programs as a founder.