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Hayato Salons
The salon lounge

Since 1992

About the salon

Outer style, inner ease

Hayato Salons began with a belief that a good haircut should agree with the person wearing it. The first room opened in New York in 1992. London, on Drury Lane in Covent Garden, carries the same brief: bilingual stylists, Japanese technique, and a finish you can keep.

Training still runs through the New York studio and the London salon, so a cut in one city is recognisable in another. The signature shampoo massage mixes a wash with pressure work developed with a shiatsu master. Lymph around the head and neck is encouraged to move; when a facial massage is added, the face looks less tired.

Stylists with a few years behind them, and graduates who want a stricter standard, can train through Hayato Academy. The point of the school is the same as the point of the chair: technique that travels.

Hayato Tanoue, founder

A short history

  1. 1987–1991

    Floor work in Roppongi, then New York, then a private-room salon named Hayato Beside.

  2. 1992–1994

    The first New York shop opens and takes the name Hayato New York.

  3. 1996–2005

    Tokyo branches in Nishiazabu and Aoyama, later brought together, and an international academy.

  4. 2008

    London opens. New York is renewed the following year.

  5. 2012–2015

    Roppongi is rebuilt. Hakone becomes a salon and retreat. An academy room opens in Harajuku.

  6. Today

    The London salon on Drury Lane, with private head-spa rooms a short walk away on Betterton Street.

One standard, several cities

New York

The original salon, still the reference for cut and training.

London

Drury Lane for hair, nails and lashes. Betterton Street for the private head spa.

Tokyo

Roppongi, with the same technical menu and an in-house product line.

Hakone

A salon beside a guest house, built around the idea of stepping out of the city.

London team

Some stylists work between Drury Lane and Betterton Street. If a time is not showing, call the salon and we will look across both rooms.

Hayato, owner
Hayato · Owner
Taiki, art director
Taiki · Art Director
Anson, art director
Anson · Art Director
Hiroki, director
Hiroki · Director
Yuko, director
Yuko · Director
Misaki, associate
Misaki · Associate
Natsumi, nail artist
Natsumi · Nail Artist
Chiaki, head spa specialist
Chiaki · Head Spa