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Our office will be closed from September 19 to September 23.Normal operations will resume on September 24.
In Japan, autumn is often associated with several seasonal expressions: 🍇 Shokuyoku no Aki - the season of good food 📚 Dokusho no Aki - the season of reading 🏃♀️ Sports no Aki - the season of sports As the weather becomes cooler, autumn offers many opportunities to enjoy seasonal activities. What does autumn mean to you? 🍂 We wish you a wonderful holiday week and look forward to reconnecting with you soon.
23 hours ago


The updated Tokai Hit WarmingBox is now officially available for Leica DMi8 🎉
Here’s what’s new: ✅ Integrated controller – no more separate units ✅ One panel for everything – manage temperature and LED settings in one place ✅ Space-saving design – keep your lab organized and efficient ✅ Designed to support the latest microscopes, including Leica DMi8 We’re proud to bring you to the next level of performance and user-friendliness with this Smarter setup. Our updated WarmingBox design is compatible with other microscopes as well. Please inquire for deta
Sep 1


Tokai Hit is proud to support a variety of courses and workshops!
🔬 Every summer, Tokai Hit is proud to support a variety of courses and workshops at @MBL, @CSHL, @MDI, and other institutions dedicated to training the next generation of imaging specialists and researchers. We are pleased to contribute to these programs by providing our products and helping enhance the participants’ research and learning experience. Here are just a few snapshots from courses such as #QFM, #OMIBS, and others. We also support courses and workshops through pro
Aug 31


Our office will be closed for the summer holiday from August 11 to August 16.
As summer reaches its peak in Japan, many people enjoy a seasonal favorite: kakigori (Japanese shaved ice)🍧 Near our office, there is a popular local kakigori shop that attracts many visitors during the summer season. Its fluffy texture and refreshing flavors make it the perfect way to cool down on a hot day. We wish you a wonderful summer and hope you have the opportunity to enjoy kakigori 😊
Aug 10


Supporting advanced live-cell imaging research at The University of Chicago!
We are delighted and honored that our newly updated WarmingBox is already being utilized in a cutting-edge research environment🔬✨ With the combination of the below 3 products, long-term stability of temperature, humidity and CO2 can be ensured. • WarmingBox • Stage Top Incubator • External Humidifier System The newly updated WarmingBox has the controller integrated into the box to keep the area around the microscope clean and sleek! We would like to express our sincere appre
Jul 31


Introducing the Updated WarmingBox for ZEISS Microscopes🎉
We’re thrilled to announce that the upgraded Tokai Hit WarmingBox is now officially also available for Zeiss microscopes! Here’s what’s new: ✅ Integrated controller – no more separate units ✅ One panel for everything – manage temperature and LED settings in one place ✅ Space-saving design – keep your lab organized and efficient ✅ Designed to support the latest microscopes, including ZEISS Axio Observer 7 We’re proud to bring you to the next level of performance and user-frien
Jul 17


ESHRE 2026 has begun! We are excited to meet Tokai Hit Thermoplate fans from all over the world.
As one of the leading events in reproductive medicine and IVF, ESHRE provides an excellent opportunity to connect with embryologists, clinicians, researchers, microscope manufacturers, and industry partners from around the world. At Tokai Hit, we remain committed to supporting IVF laboratories with precision environmental control solutions that help create stable conditions for embryo observation and manipulation through our long-trusted Thermoplate Lineup. If you're attendin
Jul 7


We’re in Coimbra, Portugal for ELMI2026!
It’s great to be exhibiting here at this fantastic event, co-organized by PPBI – Portuguese Platform of BioImaging, a leading national bioimaging infrastructure and part of the Euro-BioImaging network.🔬✨ We’ve been having a great experience so far connecting with inspiring researchers, core facility experts, and industry partners from across the community here in Coimbra. With two days remaining, including today, we’re really looking forward to meeting even more attendees an
Jun 18


Beyond Earth: Tokai Hit Products Thriving in Space🚀
We are proud to share that JAXA has released a video showcasing experiments conducted aboard the International Space Station (ISS) using the confocal microscope system “COSMIC.”🛰️ Our Stage Top Incubator has been used in this groundbreaking research, supporting advanced life science experiments in space over the years and continuing to do so today. 👇Discover how Tokai Hit technology is helping drive scientific innovation beyond Earth. We invite you to watch the latest video
Jun 12


🌍🌳On World Environment Day (June 5,2026), we reaffirm our commitment to a more sustainable future.
At Tokai Hit, we are taking practical steps to reduce environmental impact through our daily operations: Our Sustainability Actions ・No plastic cushioning for our latest STX series packaging ・No disposable bottles in our office and factory No big speeches, just real actions. We believe that even small changes can lead to a cleaner and more responsible future😉
Jun 5


🎥✨It's an honor to see this fluorescence time-lapse of “Wound Healing in Epithelial Cells, 96 hours time-lapse” again at #QFM2026!
We are currently at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Maine (USA), supporting the Quantitative Fluorescence Microscopy 2026 course by providing our products and participating in the program, which is a highly valuable and enriching experience for us. We are especially honored that simon watkins, the course director from the University of Pittsburgh, utilizes our products in his research. Please take a look at this video, kindly provided by him, which uses Tokai Hit products! L
May 22


🔬 On this final day of QSW2026 in Calgary, Canada, we’re excited to be part of such a great event!
Tokai Hit is glad to support and collaborate with Abberior by providing our Stage Top Incubator as part of the demo system used in the workshop. It’s fantastic to know that our product contributed to hands-on sessions and meaningful discussions with researchers and imaging specialists. We truly appreciate this opportunity and look forward to supporting the microscopy community together! ✨ For our next engagement, Tokai Hit will be attending #QFM in Maine, USA. Please keep fol
May 15


🔬 Live Cell Imaging of Mouse Embryonic Cleavage: Watch the Video!
We are pleased to share this remarkable time-lapse of mouse embryo cleavage, captured by Prof. Hiroshi Shimojo’s laboratory at Osaka University in Japan—one of our valued users. This work was made possible through a collaboration between Tokai Hit’s WarmingBox® and an advanced live cell imaging system, including: ✅Spinning disc confocal microscope-EMCCD system ✅ECLIPSE Ti2 (Nikon) ✅Dragonfly (Andor) ✅iXon (Andor) Visualizing these subtle developmental processes requires a hig
May 8


🌿 Holiday Notice 🌿
Tokai Hit will be closed from May 2nd to 6th and will resume operations on May 7th. During this season in Fujinomiya, one of the highlights is the Yabusame Festival held at Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha Shrine near our office— a traditional horseback archery ritual performed to pray for peace and prosperity 🐎 We look forward to this special festival every year as part of our local tradition. As we take a short holiday here in Fujinomiya, we sincerely appreciate your understand
May 1


🌸Spring greetings with cherry blossoms🌸
As cherry blossoms come into full bloom, we would like to send our warm spring greetings to our global network. TOKAI HIT is based in Fujinomiya, a city located at the foothills of Mt. Fuji, surrounded by beautiful mountains, clear water, and rich natural scenery. From this inspiring environment, we manufacture and deliver our products to customers around the world. We hope this season brings you renewed energy and success, just as spring brings new life to nature here in Fuj
Apr 23
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