is a
city
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located in western
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...
,
Japan
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. the city had an estimated
population
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...
of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a
population density
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of . The total area of the site was .
Overview
Hamamatsu is a member of the
World Health Organization
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’s
Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC).
Cityscapes
File:Hamamatsu Castle, enkei-3.jpg, Hamamatsu Castle
is a replica ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunat ...
(2021)
File:Views from Hamamatsu Castle20211002.jpg, City views from Hamamatsu Castle
is a replica ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunat ...
(2021)
File:Hamamatsu view - panoramio.jpg, CBD of Hamamatsu
File:Hamamatsu from Mount Tonmaku.jpg, Part of Hamamatsu Skyline
File:Skyline of Hamamatsu01.jpg, Skyline of Hamamatsu
File:Arco Mall Yurakugai in Hamamatsu City(2).jpg, Yūrakugai
File:Night view of Hamamatsu city.jpg, Night view of Hamamatsu
Geography
Hamamatsu is southwest of
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 ...
.
[Fukue, Natsuko.]
Nonprofit brings together foreign, Japanese residents in Hamamatsu
Archive
. ''The Japan Times
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History
''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...
''. March 13, 2010. Retrieved on October 12, 2015.
Hamamatsu consists of a flat plain and the Mikatahara Plateau in the south, and a mountainous area in the north. It is roughly bordered by
Lake Hamana to the west, the
Tenryū River
The is a river in central Honshū, Japan. With a length of , it is Japan's ninth longest river.
Its source is Lake Suwa in the Kiso Mountains near Okaya, Nagano, Okaya in Nagano Prefecture. It then flows through Aichi Prefecture and western Shi ...
to the east, and the
Pacific Ocean
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to the south.
Climate
The climate in southern Hamamatsu has a
humid subtropical climate
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with cool to mild winters with little snowfall; however, it is windy in winter because of the dry monsoon called ''Enshū no Karakaze'', which is unique to the region. The climate in northern Hamamatsu is much harsher because of
foehn winds. Summer is hot with the highest temperature often exceeds 35 degrees in the Tenryu-ku area, while it snows in winter.
Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Hamamatsu has been increasing over the past 70 years.
Foreign population
Hamamatsu has a significant non-Japanese population. The population of
Nikkei foreigners, especially Brazilians increased after a 1990 change in Japanese immigration law allowed them to work in Japan. At one point, Hamamatsu had the largest Brazilian Nikkei population of any Japanese city,
[Sugino, Toshiko (]National Defense Academy of Japan
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, ce ...
).
Linguistic Challenges and Possibilities of Immigrants In Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Japan
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Archive
. Centre for Education Research and Innovation (CERI), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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br>See list of reports
p. 1/8. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. Many foreigners work in the manufacturing sector, taking temporary jobs in
Honda
is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...
,
Suzuki
is a Japan, Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, All-terrain vehicle, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs ...
, and
Yamaha Yamaha may refer to:
* Yamaha Corporation, a Japanese company with a wide range of products and services, established in 1887. The company is the largest shareholder of Yamaha Motor Company (below).
** Yamaha Music Foundation, an organization estab ...
plants.
[ the number of non-Japanese in Hamamatsu was 33,332,][Aparecida, Tsutsumi Angela (Burajiru Fureai Kai).]
The Contradiction Between "Being and Seeming" Reinforces Low Academic Performance
Archive
. ''US-China Education Review'' B 2 (2012) p. 217-223. CITED: p. 217. and by 2010 the number exceeded 30,000. The city has a lot of Portuguese signage. It includes a Brazilian school, and many businesses catering to Brazilians display Brazilian flags. However, Natsuko Fukue of ''The Japan Times
''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
''The Japan Times'' was launched by ...
'' wrote in 2010 that many foreign children have difficulty integrating to society in Hamamatsu because "Japanese and foreign communities live largely separate from one another."[
The foreign population dropped significantly in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2008, with the Hamamatsu city government offering aid for some foreign nationals to return to their home countries. The foreign population was estimated as 25,084 as of August 1, 2019, per official city statistics,
]
Neighboring municipalities
;Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a population of 3,637,998 and has a geographic area of . Shizuoka Prefecture borders Kanagawa Prefecture to the east, Yamanashi Prefecture to the northea ...
* Iwata
* Kosai
* Shimada
*Mori
Mori is a Japanese and Italian surname, and also a Persian pet name for Morteza. It is also the name of two clans in Japan, and one clan in India.
Italian surname
*Barbara Mori, Uruguayan-Mexican actress
*Camilo Mori, Chilean painter
* Cesare ...
*Kawanehon
270px, Kawanehon Town Hall
is a town located in Haibara District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 6,731 in 2895 households and a population density of 13.4 persons per km². The total area of the town w ...
;Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...
* Toyohashi
*Shinshiro
is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 44,581 in 17,691 households, and a population density of 89.3 persons per km². The total area of the city is .
Geography
Shinshiro is located in east-cent ...
* Tōei
* Toyone
;Nagano Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...
* Iida
* Tenryū
History
Prehistoric Ages
The area now comprising Hamamatsu has been settled since prehistoric times, with numerous remains from the Jōmon period
The is the time in Japanese history, traditionally dated between 6,000–300 BCE, during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a c ...
and Kofun period
The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period. This period is ...
having been discovered within the present city limits, including the Shijimizuka site
The is an archaeological site containing a late to final Jōmon period settlement trace and shell middens, located in what is now Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The settlement was inhabited from approximately 2000 BC to 1000 B ...
shell mound
A midden (also kitchen midden or shell heap) is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofact ...
and the Akamonue Kofun
is a keyhole-shaped ''kofun'' burial mound located in the Uchino district of Hamakita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan. It is protected by the prefectural government as a national historic site.
Located on the eastern edge of the Mikatah ...
ancient tomb.
File:Shijimizuka Site, tatemono.jpg, Shijimizuka site
The is an archaeological site containing a late to final Jōmon period settlement trace and shell middens, located in what is now Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The settlement was inhabited from approximately 2000 BC to 1000 B ...
File:Komyosan Kofun, kouenbu-1.jpg, Kōmyōsan Kofun
Ancient Ages
In the Nara period
The of the history of Japan covers the years from CE 710 to 794. Empress Genmei established the capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day Nara). Except for a five-year period (740–745), when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the cap ...
, it became the capital of Tōtōmi Province.
Middle Ages
During the Sengoku period
The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615.
The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...
, Hamamatsu Castle
is a replica ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunat ...
was the home of future ''shōgun
, officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...
'' Tokugawa Ieyasu
was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...
.
File:高根城(浜松市).jpg, Takane Castle
File:井伊谷宮 - panoramio (2).jpg, Iinoya-gū
File:Hamamatsu Castle Park 浜松城公園3 - panoramio.jpg, Tokugawa Ieyasu
was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...
File:Hamamatsu Castle, enkei-2.jpg, Hamamatsu Castle
is a replica ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunat ...
File:Battle of Mikatagahara.jpg, Battle of Mikatagahara
The was a battle of the Sengoku period of Japan fought between Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province on 25 January 1573.
Shingen attacked Ieyasu at the plain of Mikatagahara north of Hamamatsu during his cam ...
(1573)
Early Modern Ages
Hamamatsu flourished during the Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
under a succession of ''daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...
'' rulers as a castle town, and as a post town on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo
Edo ( ja, , , "bay-entrance" or "estuary"), also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Edo, formerly a ''jōkamachi'' (castle town) centered on Edo Castle located in Musashi Province, became the ''de facto'' capital of ...
with Kyoto
Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the ci ...
.
File:Brooklyn Museum - Hamamatsu from Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Highway (Tokaido Goju-san Tsugi no Uchi) - Utagawa Hiroshige (Ando).jpg, Hamamatsu-juku
was the twenty-ninth of the fifty-three stations (''shukuba'') of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now Hamamatsu's Naka-ku in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
History
During the Tenpō era (1830–1844), Hamamatsu-juku was located in Hamam ...
File:Hamamatsu (5759536694).jpg, Hamamatsu-juku
was the twenty-ninth of the fifty-three stations (''shukuba'') of the Tōkaidō. It is located in what is now Hamamatsu's Naka-ku in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
History
During the Tenpō era (1830–1844), Hamamatsu-juku was located in Hamam ...
File:NDL-DC 2554563 04-Utagawa Hiroshige-東海道五拾三次 舞坂-crd.jpg, Maisaka-juku
was the thirtieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the western portion of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, the area was part of Tōtōmi Province. The ''kanji'' for the post station ...
File:Maisaka Gyosho Tokaido.jpg, Maisaka-juku
was the thirtieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the western portion of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, the area was part of Tōtōmi Province. The ''kanji'' for the post station ...
Late Modern Ages
After the Meiji Restoration
The , referred to at the time as the , and also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Regeneration, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ...
, Hamamatsu became a short-lived prefecture from 1871 to 1876, after which it was united with Shizuoka Prefecture.
Hamamatsu Station
is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central). The local Enshū Railway Line terminus of Shin-Hamamatsu Station is 3 minute ...
opened on the Tōkaidō Main Line
The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...
in 1889.
The same year, with the establishment of the modern municipalities system, Hamamatsu became a town.
* July 1, 1911: Hamamatsu is upgraded from a town to a city
* 1918: Rice riots of 1918
The were a series of popular disturbances that erupted throughout Japan from July to September 1918, which brought about the collapse of the Terauchi Masatake administration.
Causes
A precipitous rise in the price of rice caused extreme econom ...
affect Hamamatsu
* 1921: The village of Tenjinchō merges with Hamamatsu
* 1926: Imperial Japanese Army
The was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945. It was controlled by the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office and the Ministry of the Army, both of which were nominally subordinate to the Emperor o ...
Hamamatsu Air Base opens
* 1933: Imperial Japanese Army Flight School opens
* 1936: The villages of Hikuma and Fujizuka merge with Hamamatsu
* December 7, 1944: Tonankai earthquake causes much damage
* June 1945: Hamamatsu largely destroyed by US air raids
File:Hamamatsu Hirokoji Dori in 1930s.jpg, Hirokoji Street in the 1930s
File:Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha headquarter & factory in Hamamatsu, c.1935.jpg, Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha headquarter & factory(1935)
File:Hamamatsu after the 1945 air raid.JPG, Bombing of Hamamatsu in World War II
The was part of the strategic bombing campaign waged by the United States of America against military and civilian targets and population centers of the Empire of Japan during the Japan home islands campaign in the closing states of World War II. ...
(1945)
Contemporary Ages
* 1948: Hamamatsu Incident, ethnic rioting of Zainichi Korean
comprise ethnic Koreans who have permanent residency status in Japan or who have become Japanese citizens, and whose immigration to Japan originated before 1945, or who are descendants of those immigrants. They are a group distinct from South ...
residents.
* 1951: The villages of Aratsu, Goto, and Kawarin merge with Hamamatsu
* 1954: Eight villages in Hamana District merge with Hamamatsu
* 1955: The village of Miyakoda merges with Hamamatsu
* 1957: The village of Irino merges with Hamamatsu
* 1960: The village of Seto merges with Hamamatsu
* 1961: The village of Shinohara merges with Hamamatsu
* 1965: The village of Shonai merges with Hamamatsu
* May 1, 1990: Hamamatsu Arena opened
* January 1, 1991: The village of Kami in Hamana District merges with Hamamatsu.
* April 1, 1991: The first Hamamatsu International Piano Competition The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition has been held every 3 years since 1991 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, and is open to pianists up to 30 years old.
History
The Piano Competition was inaugurated in 1991 to commemorate the 80th anniversar ...
was held.
* May 1, 1994: Act City Tower opened.
* October 1, 1995: Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments opened.
* April 1, 1996: Hamamatsu is designated a core city by the central government.
* June 1, 1996: Hamamatsu City Fruit Park opened.
* April 1, 1997: Hamamatsu is designated as an Omnibus Town.
* April 1, 1998: Act City Musical School opened.
* April 3, 2000: Shizuoka University of Art and Culture opened.
* July 1, 2001: The city's 90th anniversary is commemorated
* August 1, 2002: Launched the conference on Pan-Hamanako Designated City Simulation.
* April 1, 2003: Shizuoka New Kawafuji National High School Competition was held.
* June 1, 2003: Launched Tenryūgawa-Hamanako Region Merger Conference.
* April 8 – October 11, 2004: Pacific Flora 2004 (Shizuoka International Garden and Horticulture Exhibition) was held at Hamanako Garden Park.
* July 1, 2005: Hamamatsu absorbed the cities of Hamakita
was a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
On April 1, 2005, the city had an estimated population of 86,653 and a density of 1,300.00 persons per km2. The total area was 66.64 km2. It is now part of ward of Hamakita when th ...
and Tenryū; the town of Haruno (from Shūchi District), the towns of Hosoe, Inasa and Mikkabi (all from Inasa District), the towns of Misakubo and Sakuma, the village of Tatsuyama (all from Iwata District), and the towns of Maisaka and Yūtō (both from Hamana District) were merged into Hamamatsu. Inasa District and Iwata District were both dissolved as a result of this merger. Therefore, there are no more villages left in Shizuoka Prefecture.
* April 1, 2007: Hamamatsu became a city designated by government ordinance by the central government.
Government
Hamamatsu has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral
Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one.
Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...
city legislature of 46 members. The city contributes 15 members to the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.
Wards
Hamamatsu is administratively divided into seven wards
Ward may refer to:
Division or unit
* Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward
* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a priso ...
:
External relations
Twin towns – sister cities
International
;Sister City
Hamamatsu has ratified Music Culture Exchange Treaty with the following cities (however, of the following Rochester is the only official sister city):
;Twinned Cities
Hamamatsu is twinned with:
;Friendship cities
Economy
Hamamatsu has been famous as an industrial city, especially for musical instrument
A musical instrument is a device created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be considered a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument. A person who pl ...
s and motorcycle
A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit a range of different purposes: long-distance travel, commuting, cruising ...
s. It also has been known for fabric industry, but most of those companies and factories went out of business in the 1990s. As of 2010, Greater Hamamatsu, Hamamatsu Metropolitan Employment Area, has a GDP of US$54.3 billion.
2014 Hamamatsu's GDP per capita(PPP) was US$41,470.
Companies headquartered in Hamamatsu
* Enkei Corporation
is a Japanese motorcycle and passenger car wheel manufacturer for both motorsport and street use.
The company was founded in 1950 and it is also an OEM manufacturer of wheels for production vehicles, mainly in Aluminium wheels for sporty mod ...
* Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.
* Kawai Musical Instruments Mfg.
* Roland Corporation
is a Japanese manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, electronic equipment, and software. It was founded by Ikutaro Kakehashi in Osaka on 18 April 1972. In 2005, its headquarters relocated to Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It has fact ...
* Suzuki Motor Co.
* Tōkai Gakki (also known as ''Tokai Guitars Company Ltd.'')
* Yamaha Corporation
is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services. It is one of the constituents of Nikkei 225 and is the world's largest musical instrument manufacturing company. The former motorcycle div ...
Companies founded in Hamamatsu
* Honda Motor Co.
is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, reaching a product ...
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Acty System
File:The frontview of Suzuki SWIFT HYBRID RS (DAA-ZC53S).jpg, Suzuki Motor
File:Yamaha MT-10.jpg, YAMAHA Motor
Media
Radio stations
* FM Haro! FM Haro! (JOZZ6AB-FM, 76.1 MHz) is an FM radio station based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It is the seventh "community FM radio station" opened in Japan. Broadcasting area is roughly bounded by Kikugawa, Shizuoka and Omaezaki, Shizuoka in the ...
(JOZZ6AB FM, 76.1 MHz)
* K-MIX (JOKU FM, 78.4 MHz)
* NHK FM Broadcast, NHK FM (JOPK FM, 82.1 MHz)
* SBS Radio (1404 kHz / 94.7 MHz)
* Radio Phoenix (internet)
Transportation
Airways
Airport
* Hamamatsu Air Base
There are no civilian airports in Hamamatsu. Shizuoka Airport () is the closest, located from Hamamatsu Station, between Makinohara, Shizuoka, Makinohara and Shimada.
Chūbu Centrair International Airport in Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...
, located about west of the city, is the second closest.
Railways
High-Speed Rail
; Central Japan Railway Company
*Tōkaidō Shinkansen:- -
**JR Central Hamamatsu workshop: maintenance facility for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Conventional Lines
; Central Japan Railway Company
*Tōkaidō Main Line
The is a major Japanese railway line of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) network, connecting and stations. It is long, not counting its many freight feeder lines around the major cities. The high-speed Tōkaidō Shinkansen largely parallel ...
:- -
*Iida Line:- -
; Enshū Railway Line, Enshū Railway
*Enshū Railway Line:-
;Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū Hamanako Line, Tenryū Hamanako Railroad
*Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū Hamanako Line, Tenryū Hamanako Line:- -
Roads
Expressways
* Tōmei Expressway (Hamamatsu interchange, Hamamatsu Nishi interchange, and Mikkabi interchange)
* Shin-Tōmei Expressway
Hiways
* San-en Nanshin Expressway (under construction)
Bypasses
*Hamamatsu Bypass
*Hamana Bypass
Japan National Highways
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Education
Colleges and universities
* Hamamatsu Gakuin University
* Hamamatsu University
* Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
* Seirei Christopher University
* Shizuoka University (Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Informatics)
* Shizuoka University of Art and Culture
* Seisa University, Hamamatsu campus
*Tokoha University, Hamamatsu campus
Primary and secondary schools
Senior high schools operated by Shizuoka Prefecture:
* Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu North High School (:ja:静岡県立浜松北高等学校, 静岡県立浜松北高等学校)
* Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu Nishi Senior and Junior High Schools, Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu Nishi (West) Senior and Junior High Schools (:ja:静岡県立浜松西高等学校・中等部, 静岡県立浜松西高等学校・中等部)
* Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu East High School (:ja:静岡県立浜松東高等学校, 静岡県立浜松東高等学校)
* Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu South High School (:ja:静岡県立浜松南高等学校, 静岡県立浜松南高等学校)
* Shizuoka Prefectural Kiga High School (:ja:静岡県立気賀高等学校, 静岡県立気賀高等学校)
* Shizuoka Prefectural Kohoku High School (:ja:静岡県立浜松湖東高等学校, 静岡県立浜松湖東高等学校)
* Shizuoka Prefectural Mikkabi High School (:ja:静岡県立三ヶ日高等学校, 静岡県立三ヶ日高等学校)
There is one senior high school operated by the city government: Hamamatsu Municipal Senior High School
Elementary and junior high schools are operated by the city government. , the city had 117 public elementary schools and 52 public junior high schools.[Aparecida, Tsutsumi Angela (Burajiru Fureai Kai).]
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Multicultural education
The city has the following Brazilian schools in Japan, Brazilian international schools:
* Escola Brasil (former Escola Brasileira de Hamamatsu) – Primary and secondary school[Escolas Brasileiras Homologadas no Japão]
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* Escola Alegria de Saber – Primary and secondary school[
* Escola Alcance – Primary school][
It has one combined Peruvian school (:ja:ペルー学校, ペルー学校) and Brazilian primary school, Mundo de Alegría.][
The city formerly hosted other Brazilian schools, Colégio Pitágoras Brasil and Escola Cantinho Feliz.
As of May 1, 2009, the municipal elementary and junior high schools had 1,638 non-Japanese students.][Kitawaki, Yasuyuki (北脇保之) (Former mayor of Hamamatsu, Director of the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Education and Research, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (CEMMER, 東京外国語大学多言語・多文化教育研究センター)).]
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. At the Council of Europe website. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. PDF p. 7-8/13. , there were 932 Brazilians in Japan, Brazilians enrolled in Hamamatsu's municipal elementary and junior high schools: 646 Brazilians were enrolled in 61 public elementary schools, and 286 Brazilians were enrolled in 38 public junior high schools.[
Within public schools Brazilian students have the same academic programs and take the same classes as Japanese nationals.][ Special teachers and assistants work with foreign students at municipal elementary and junior high schools with significant numbers of non-Japanese enrolled.][Kitawaki, Yasuyuki (北脇保之) (Former mayor of Hamamatsu, Director of the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Education and Research, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (CEMMER, 東京外国語大学多言語・多文化教育研究センター)).]
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has become very useful".[ Toshiko Sugino of the ]National Defense Academy of Japan
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wrote that the municipal and prefectural schools in Hamamatsu "follow traditional views of education and enforce rigid school rules" despite the reputation of open-mindedness in the residents of Hamamatsu, causing some foreigners to send their non-Japanese children to foreign private schools.[Sugino, Toshiko (]National Defense Academy of Japan
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many Brazilian parents have difficulty in deciding whether to send their children to Japanese schools or Brazilian schools, and it is common for Brazilian children attending Japanese schools to switch to a Brazilian school and vice versa.[ By 2010 many Brazilian parents had lost their jobs due to an economic decline, and many were unable to afford the Brazilian school monthly tuitions of ¥30,000 to ¥40,000.][
about 50% of Brazilians of high school age in Hamamatsu Fushūgaku, do not attend high school. The inability to afford high school and difficulty with Japanese resulted in lower high school attendance rates. Hamamatsu NPO Network Center has made efforts to increase school attendance.][
In Hamamatsu volunteers and a non-profit organization have established Japanese-language classes and native language classes for foreign children.][
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Local attractions
* Act City Tower Observatory: Hamamatsu's only skyscraper, situated next to JR Hamamatsu Station, is a symbol of the city. It was designed to resemble a harmonica, a reminder that Hamamatsu is sometimes known as the "City of Music". The building houses shopping and a food court, the Okura Hotel, and an observatory on the 45th floor overlooking all of central Hamamatsu, even down to the sand dunes at the shore.
* Chopin Monument This is a 1:1-scale replica of the famous Art Nouveau bronze statue of Chopin Monument (Warsaw), Chopin by the famed artist Wacław Szymanowski. The original is in Hamamatsu's Twin towns and sister cities, sister city, Warsaw.
* Hamamatsu Castle
is a replica ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various ''fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunat ...
: Hamamatsu Castle Park stretches from the modern city hall building to the north. The castle is located on a hill in the southeast corner of the park, near city hall. It was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu
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. His rule marks the beginning of the Edo period
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. Tokugawa Ieyasu lived here from 1571 to 1588. There is a small museum inside, which houses some armor and other relics of the period, as well as a miniature model of how the city might have looked 400 years ago. North of the castle is a large park with a Japanese garden, a koi pond, a Japanese tea ceremony, ceremonial teahouse, and some commons areas.
* Nakatajima Sand Dunes: one of the three largest sand dune areas in Japan
* Hamamatsu Flower Park
* Hamamatsu Fruit Park
* Hamamatsu Municipal Zoo
* Iinoya-gū shrine
* Motoshirochō Tōshō-gū shrine
File:Hamamatsu Castle, enkei-3.jpg, Hamamatsu Castle
File:Nakatajima sand dunes.jpg, Nakatajima Sand Dunes
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File:Wedding Central Park.JPG, Hamamatsu Wedding Central Park
File:Lake Hamana.JPG, Lake Hamana
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Culture
Festivals
Akiha Fire Festival
: Haruno, Tenryu-ku: December
Long ago, Mount Akiha was believed to have supernatural powers to prevent fires. Bow and arrow, sword, and fire dances are performed at the Akiha Shrine. At the Akiha Temple, a firewalking ceremony is performed where both believers and spectators celebrate the festival.
Enshū Dainenbutsu
: Saigagake Museum, Hamamatsu City: July 15
When a family commemorates the first ''Obon'' holidays after the death of a loved one, they may request that a ''dainenbutsu'' (Buddhist chanting ritual) be performed outside their house. This is one of the local performing arts of the region. The group always forms a procession in front of the house led by a person carrying a lantern and marches to the sound of flutes, Japanese drums and cymbals.
Hamamatsu Kite Festival
: Naka-ku, Minami-ku, others: May
Hamamatsu Kite Festival is also called Hamamatsu Festival. Hamamatsu Kite Festival held from May 3 to May 5 each year, includes a ''Tako Gassen'', or kite fight, and luxuriously decorated palace-like floats. The festival originated about 430 years ago, when the lord of Hamamatsu Castle celebrated the birth of his first son by flying kites. In the Meiji Era, the celebration of the birth of a first son by flying ''Hatsu Dako'', or the first kite, became popular, and this tradition has survived in the form of Hamamatsu Kite Festival. During the nights of Hamamatsu Kite Festival, people parade downtown carrying over 70 ''yatai'', or palace-lake floats, that are beautifully decorated while playing Japanese traditional festival music. The festival reaches its peak when groups representing the city's various districts compete by energetically marching through the downtown streets.
Hamakita Hiryu Festival
: Hamakita-ku: June
This festival is held in honor of Ryujin, the god believed to be associated with the Tenryū River
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, and features a wide variety of events such as the Hamakita takoage (kite flying) event and the ''Hiryu himatsuri'' (flying dragon fire festival) which celebrates water, sound, and flame.
Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
: November
This festival celebrates Hamamatsu's history as a city of musical instruments and music, and brings dozens of the best young pianists from all over the world. It has been held triennially since 1991 at the Act City Concert Hall and Main Hall.
Hamakita Man'yō Festival
: Hamakita-ku, Hamamatsu: October
This event takes place in Man'yō-no-Mori Park to commemorate the Man'yō period and introduce its culture. As part of the festival, people reenact the ancient past by wearing traditional clothes from the Heian period and presenting Japanese poetry readings.
Inasa Puppet Festival
: Inasa, Kita-ku: November
One of the few puppet festivals held in Japan, featuring 60 performances of about 30 plays by puppet masters from all over the country. The shows provide a full day of enjoyment for both children and adults.
Princess Road Festival
: Hosoe, Kita-ku: April
This reenactment of a procession made by the princess in her palanquin along with her entourage of over 100 people including maids, samurai, and servants makes for a splendid scene beneath the cherry blossoms along the Toda River. In the Edo period
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, princesses enjoyed traveling this road which came to be known as a ''hime kaidō'' (''princess road'').
Samba Festival
The Hamamatsu Samba Festival is held in the city.[Kitawaki, Yasuyuki (北脇保之) (Former mayor of Hamamatsu, Director of the Center for Multilingual Multicultural Education and Research, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (CEMMER, 東京外国語大学多言語・多文化教育研究センター)).]
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Shoryu Weeping Ume Blossom Festival
: Inasa, Kita-ku: late February to late March
In Ryusui Garden there is a stream with seven small waterfalls and about 80 weeping ''Prunus mume, ume'' trees pruned to give the appearance of dragons riding on clouds to the heavens. There are also 200 young trees planted along the mountainside.
Sports
File:Hamamatsu stadium.JPG, Hamamatsu stadium
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Football
* Honda FC which plays Japan Football League (third division) games at their own Miyakoda Soccer Stadium. Honda competed in the Japan Soccer League's First Division from 1981 to 1991, but chose to relegate itself and not compete in the professional divisions due to parent company Honda
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's choice to retain team ownership. Many Hamamatsu football fans prefer to follow Júbilo Iwata, across the Tenryū River
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in Iwata. Júbilo maintains a club shop within Hamamatsu.
* Volare FC Hamamatsu, an autonomous club who competed in the Tokai Regional Football League Division 2 in 2011, flouted plans to either overtake Honda FC or merge with it, but it finished last in the Tokai League and was relegated. Hamamatsu University also keeps a team in the said division, but college teams cannot be promoted to the top three tiers.
Basketball
* SAN-EN NeoPhoenix plays in the B.League, Japan's first division of professional basketball. The team plays its home games at the Toyohashi City General Gymnasium.
The Hamamatsu Arena was one of the host arenas of the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
Hamamatsu 3x3 FIBA: Placed Second at FIBA World Tour FInal in ABU Dhabi in 2016.
(Bikramjit Gill, Inderbir Gill, Chiro Kheda)
Women's volleyball
Hamamatsu was one of the host cities of the official 2010 Women's Volleyball World Championship.
Notable people
* Hiroshi Amano, 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics winner
* Haruhi Aiso, singer, songwriter
* Barasui, manga artist
* Yuri Chinen, J-pop talent, singer
* Yōsuke Fujigaya, professional football player
* Yuji Fujimoto, politician
* Ken Fujita, professional football player
* Hironoshin Furuhashi, Olympic swimmer
* Kazuhiro Furuhashi, anime movie director
* Tatsuya Furuhashi, professional football player
* Taketoshi Gotoh, professional baseball player
* Akari Hibino, voice actress
* Coco Hayashi, voice actress
* Soichiro Honda, engineer, industrialist, founder of Honda Motor Company
* Yusuke Inuzuka, professional football player
* Yasuhide Ito, composer
* Toshio Kakei, actor
* Takeshi Kamo, Olympic football player
* Yoko Kando, Olympic swimmer
* Naoyuki Kato, illustrator
* Genichi Kawakami, former president of Yamaha
* Keisuke Kinoshita, movie director
* Naoyuki Kinoshita, art historian
* Sanae Kobayashi, voice actress
* Shigetatsu Matsunaga, professional football player
* Takuya Matsuura, professional football player
* Kanako Momota, J-pop singer and leader of Momoiro Clover Z
* Kiiti Morita, mathematician
* Ken Namba, composer
* Jiro Ono (chef), Jiro Ono, renowned sushi chef
* Yuki Oshitani, professional football player
* Ken'ya Ōsumi, dancer
* Keisuke Ota (footballer born 1981), Keisuke Ota, professional football player
* Yoshiaki Ota, professional football player
* Fumiya Sankai, Vlogger and actor in the Philippines, recording artist, and a businessman
* Kentaro Sato (composer), Kentaro Sato, composer
* Shinichiro Sawai, movie director, screenwriter
* Goro Shimura, mathematician
* Ryu Shionoya, politician
* Hideto Suzuki, professional football player
* Koji Suzuki (writer), Koji Suzuki, science-fiction writer
* Michio Suzuki (inventor), Michio Suzuki, founder of Suzuki Motors
* Yasutomo Suzuki, politician, mayor of Hamamatsu
* Saya Takagi, actress
* Kenjiro Takayanagi, engineer, pioneer in development of the television
* Nobuhiro Takeda, professional football player
* Kenji Tsuruta, manga artist
* Kōji Tsuruta, actor
* Azumi Uehara, J-pop singer
* Hiromi Uehara, Jazz composer, pianist
* Tetsuya Wakuda, Japanese-Born Australian Chef
* Kosuke Yamamoto, professional football player
* Masaaki Yanagishita, professional football player
* Kisho Yano, professional football player
See also
* ''Nikkei Brazilians at a Brazilian School in Japan''
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