Who owns Ikyu.com?
Ikyu.com is owned by LY Corporation (Japan, TSE: 4689), which has owned the brand since 2016.[1]
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: LY Corporation Integrated Report FY2024, 19 November 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- LY Corporation reported
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online travel › Online travel agencies
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 4689
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Ikyu.com
Ikyu.com is the travel-booking service of Ikyu Corporation, which LY Corporation made a consolidated subsidiary in 2016. LY lists it among its services e-commerce businesses together with Yahoo! JAPAN Travel and LINE TRAVEL in Taiwan. From the third quarter of the year to March 2025 the group moved Ikyu.com for Restaurants and PayPay Gourmet from its Media Business segment to its Commerce Business segment.
Ownership timeline of Ikyu.com
- 2016 – present LY Corporation [1] reported
Where Ikyu.com sits in LY Corporation
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Ikyu.com
- LINE
- Yahoo! JAPAN
- ZOZOTOWN (51.4%)
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Other brands owned by LY Corporation
LY Corporation controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 4 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- LINE (2011)
- Yahoo! JAPAN (1996)
- ZOZOTOWN
Other brands in online travel agencies, and who owns them
The 40 brands in online travel agencies on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Expedia Group, with 7.
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|---|---|---|
| CheapTickets | Expedia Group | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Corporate Traveller | Flight Centre Travel Group | 🇦🇺 Australia |
| Bravofly | lastminute.com Group | 🇳🇱 Netherlands |
| Agoda | Booking Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| eDreams | eDreams ODIGEO | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Goibibo | MakeMyTrip | 🇮🇳 India |
| Kurz Mal Weg | HomeToGo | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Ctrip | Trip.com Group | 🇨🇳 China |
About the owner: LY Corporation
LY Corporation is a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan, founded in 2023. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as TSE: 4689.
LY Corporation is the Tokyo-listed company, code 4689 on the TSE Prime market, formed in October 2023 by an intra-group reorganisation that brought together Yahoo Japan Corporation and LINE Corporation. It is itself controlled: its integrated report names A Holdings Corporation as its parent, held 50.0% each by SoftBank Corp. and NAVER Corporation, with A Holdings owning 62.4% of LY and general shareholders 37.6%. It runs the Yahoo! JAPAN portal and the LINE messaging app and holds stakes in PayPay, ZOZO and ASKUL.
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🇯🇵 Ikyu.com and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Ikyu.com is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Ikyu.com?
The parent company of Ikyu.com is LY Corporation, a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan.
Is Ikyu.com Japanese?
Yes. Ikyu.com originated in Japan and its owner, LY Corporation, is also headquartered in Japan.
Since when has LY Corporation owned Ikyu.com?
LY Corporation has owned Ikyu.com since 2016.
Is Ikyu.com still owned by LY Corporation?
Yes. As of 4 October 2026, Ikyu.com is still owned by LY Corporation. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] LY Corporation Integrated Report FY2024 — LY Corporation, Annual report, published 19 November 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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