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located in western

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. the city had an estimated

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of 791,707 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, and a

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of . The total area of the site was .

Overview

Hamamatsu is a member of the

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’s Alliance for Healthy Cities (AFHC).

Cityscapes

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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 ...

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Geography

Tenryū River, Tenryū Ward Hamamatsu 2012

Hamamatsu is southwest of

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''. 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

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to the east, and the

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to the south.

Climate

The climate in southern Hamamatsu has a

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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 (

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p. 1/8. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. Many foreigners work in the manufacturing sector, taking temporary jobs in

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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

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plants. the number of non-Japanese in Hamamatsu was 33,332,Aparecida, Tsutsumi Angela (Burajiru Fureai Kai).
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'' 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

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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 *

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* 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,

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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 ...

was the home of future ''

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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 ...

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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

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under a succession of ''

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'' rulers as a castle town, and as a post town on the Tōkaidō highway connecting

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with

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Late Modern Ages

After the

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, Hamamatsu became a short-lived prefecture from 1871 to 1876, after which it was united with Shizuoka Prefecture.

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opened on the

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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:

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affect Hamamatsu * 1921: The village of Tenjinchō merges with Hamamatsu * 1926:

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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,

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（1945）

Contemporary Ages

* 1948: Hamamatsu Incident, ethnic rioting of

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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

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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

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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

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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 Metropolitan Employment Area 2010

Hamamatsu has been famous as an industrial city, especially for

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s and

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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.'') *

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Companies founded in Hamamatsu

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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 is the official music and news FM radio station of the NHK (the Japan Broadcasting Corporation). See also * NHK External links

* NHK, FM Radio in Japan Publicly funded broadcasters Radio stations established in 1969 1969 establishme ...

(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 and Shimada.

Chūbu Centrair International Airport is an international airport on an artificial island in Ise Bay, Tokoname City in Aichi Prefecture, south of Nagoya in central Japan. Centrair is classified as a first class airport and is the main international gateway for the Chubu ("ce ...

, located about west of the city, is the second closest.

Railways

High-Speed Rail

;

Central Japan Railway Company is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu (Nagoya) region of central Japan. It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai ( ja, JR東海, links=no). ''Tōkai'' is a reference to the geographical ...

Tōkaidō Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the Sanyo Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opened in 1964, ...

：- - **JR Central Hamamatsu workshop: maintenance facility for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen

Conventional Lines

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Enshū Railway *

Enshū Railway Line The Enshū Railway Line, officially the , is a Japanese railway line in Shizuoka Prefecture, running north from Shin Hamamatsu, Naka Ward through Nishi Kajima, Tenryū Ward, all within Hamamatsu. This is the only railway line Enshū Railway ( ...

：- ;

Tenryū Hamanako Railroad Tenryū may refer to: *Tenryū, Shizuoka, a city *Tenryū, Nagano, a village *Tenryū River *Tenryū-ji, a temple * , several ships People with the name *Tenryū Saburō (Saburo Wakuta, 1903-1989), Japanese sumo wrestler and martial arts fighter * ...

* Tenryū Hamanako Line：- -

Roads

Expressways

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(Hamamatsu interchange, Hamamatsu Nishi interchange, and Mikkabi interchange) * Shin-Tōmei Expressway

Hiways

San-en Nanshin Expressway The is a national expressway connecting Iida, Nagano and Hamamatsu. It is owned and operated by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism The , abbreviated MLIT, is a ministry of the Japanese government. Shizuoka University of Art and Culture - Courtyard

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Colleges and universities

* Hamamatsu Gakuin University *

Hamamatsu University was a private university in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Hamamatsu University was established as in 1988. It added a Department of International Economics in 1994, and a graduate studies Postgraduate or graduate education ...

Hamamatsu University School of Medicine is a national university in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Jap ...

Seirei Christopher University is a co-educational private university in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan. History Seirei Christopher University began as the “Bethel Home”, a private tuberculosis sanatorium established in 1932 by local Japanese Christians in Hama ...

Shizuoka University is a national university in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Shizuoka University is well known in the field of engineering, in creative innovation, and in the invention of next generation technology, with the prestigious international exchange ...

(Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Informatics) * Shizuoka University of Art and Culture * Seisa University, Hamamatsu campus *

Tokoha University is a private university in the Aoi ward of Shizuoka City, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1946, and it was chartered as a university in 1980. The university is operated by the foundation that also operates Tokoha Gakuen Junio ...

, Hamamatsu campus

Primary and secondary schools

Senior high schools operated by Shizuoka Prefecture: *

Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu North High School Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

( 静岡県立浜松北高等学校) * Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu Nishi (West) Senior and Junior High Schools ( 静岡県立浜松西高等学校・中等部) *

Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu East High School Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

( 静岡県立浜松東高等学校) *

Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu South High School Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

( 静岡県立浜松南高等学校) * Shizuoka Prefectural Kiga High School ( 静岡県立気賀高等学校) *

Shizuoka Prefectural Kohoku High School Shizuoka can refer to: * Shizuoka Prefecture, a Japanese prefecture * Shizuoka (city), the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture * Shizuoka Airport * Shizuoka Domain, the name from 1868 to 1871 for Sunpu Domain, a predecessor of Shizuoka Prefecture ...

( 静岡県立浜松湖東高等学校) * Shizuoka Prefectural Mikkabi High School ( 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 international schools: * Escola Brasil (former Escola Brasileira de Hamamatsu) – Primary and secondary schoolEscolas Brasileiras Homologadas no Japão

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. Embassy of Brazil in Tokyo. Retrieved on October 13, 2015. *

Escola Alegria de Saber is a network of Brazilian international schools in Japan. It has campuses in Aichi, Gunma, Mie, and Shizuoka prefectures. The campuses, which have about 2,000 students as of 2015,ペルー学校) and Brazilian primary school,

Mundo de Alegría is a Peruvian international school ( ペルー学校) in Nishi-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. The school, which has primary and secondary levels, uses Spanish as the medium of instruction. In 2013 the Embassy of Peru celebrated the school's 10 year anniv ...

. 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 , often referred to as TUFS, is a specialist research university in Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan. TUFS is primarily devoted to foreign language, international affairs and foreign studies. It also features an Asia-African institution. History The Uni ...

(CEMMER, 東京外国語大学多言語・多文化教育研究センター)).
A Japanese approach to municipal diversity management: The case of Hamamatsu City

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. ''Managing Diversity: Stronger Communities, Better Cities''
Information about the bookArchive
. At the

Council of Europe The Council of Europe (CoE; french: Conseil de l'Europe, ) is an international organisation founded in the wake of World War II to uphold European Convention on Human Rights, human rights, democracy and the Law in Europe, rule of law in Europe. ...

website. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. PDF p. 7-8/13. , there were 932

Brazilians Brazilians ( pt, Brasileiros, ) are the citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or legal guardian as well as a person who acquired Brazilian citizenship. Brazil is a multiethnic society, which me ...

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,

website. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. PDF p. 8/13. In particular the schools use their part-time interpreters to assist Brazilian students. The interpreters are not formal teachers, yet Tsutsumi Angela Aparecida of Hamamatsu's Burajiru Fureai Kai wrote that " eir assistance has become very useful". Toshiko Sugino of the

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 (

See list of reports
. p. 4/8. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. 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 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.

Local attractions

* Act City Tower Observatory: Hamamatsu's only

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...

, situated next to JR Hamamatsu Station, is a symbol of the city. It was designed to resemble a

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

, 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 Art Nouveau (; ) is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. The style is known by different names in different languages: in German, in Italian, in Catalan, and also known as the Modern ...

bronze statue of Chopin by the famed artist

Wacław Szymanowski Wacław Szymanowski (23 August 185922 July 1930) was a Polish sculptor and painter. He is best known for his statue of composer Frédéric Chopin in Warsaw's Royal Baths Park (Łazienki Park). Life Szymanowski was born in Warsaw and was the so ...

. The original is in Hamamatsu's

sister city A sister city or a twin town relationship is a form of legal or social agreement between two geographically and politically distinct localities for the purpose of promoting cultural and commercial ties. While there are early examples of inter ...

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

.　 *

: 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

. His rule marks the beginning of the

. 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 are traditional gardens whose designs are accompanied by Japanese aesthetics and philosophical ideas, avoid artificial ornamentation, and highlight the natural landscape. Plants and worn, aged materials are generally used by Japanese garden desig ...

, a

koi or more specifically , are colored varieties of the Amur carp ('' Cyprinus rubrofuscus'') that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens. Koi is an informal name for the colored variants of ''C. rubrofuscus'' ke ...

pond, a ceremonial teahouse, and some commons areas. *

Nakatajima Sand Dunes are located at the southern part of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture at the Pacific Ocean coast of Japan. The sand dune area measures approximately 0.6 km from north to south and 4.0 km from east to west. It is considered one of Japan ...

: 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 is a Shinto shrine in Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1886, and its main festival is held annually on October 10. It is also sometimes known as the History Motoshirochō Tōshō-gū is one of many shrines i ...

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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

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

s, Japanese

drum The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

s and

cymbal A cymbal is a common percussion instrument. Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys. The majority of cymbals are of indefinite pitch, although small disc-shaped cymbals based on ancient designs soun ...

Hamamatsu Kite Festival

: Naka-ku, Minami-ku, others: May

Hamamatsu Kite Festival Hamamatsu Kite Festival (浜松まつり) is Japanese festival in Hamamatsu. It is generally known to have multiple kites, along with a lot of kite battles through the days it is held. The festival also displays examples of Japanese culture thro ...

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

, 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 is one of the seven wards of the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is bordered by Tenryū-ku, Higashi-ku, Naka-ku and the city of Iwata. The Tenryū River and the Akaishi Mountains form natural boundaries for the ward. Ham ...

: 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 The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese. ...

and presenting

Japanese poetry Japanese poetry is poetry typical of Japan, or written, spoken, or chanted in the Japanese language, which includes Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese, and Modern Japanese, as well as poetry in Japan which was written in t ...

readings.

Inasa Puppet Festival

: Inasa, Kita-ku: November One of the few

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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 were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

, and servants makes for a splendid scene beneath the

cherry blossom A cherry blossom, also known as Japanese cherry or sakura, is a flower of many trees of genus ''Prunus'' or ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus''. They are common species in East Asia, including China, Korea and especially in Japan. They generally ...

s along the

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. In the

, princesses enjoyed traveling this road which came to be known as a ''

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'' (''princess road'').

Samba Festival

The Hamamatsu

Samba Samba (), also known as samba urbano carioca (''urban Carioca samba'') or simply samba carioca (''Carioca samba''), is a Brazilian music genre that originated in the Afro-Brazilian communities of Rio de Janeiro in the early 20th century. Havin ...

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,

website. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. PDF p. 9/13.

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 ''

ume ''Prunus mume'' is an East Asian and Southeast Asian tree species classified in the ''Armeniaca'' section of the genus ''Prunus'' subgenus ''Prunus''. Its common names include Chinese plum, Japanese plum, and Japanese apricot. The flower, long ...

'' trees pruned to give the appearance of

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s riding on clouds to the heavens. There are also 200 young trees planted along the mountainside.

Sports

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Honda Miyakoda Soccer Stadium Honda Miyakoda Soccer Stadium is a stadium located in Kita-ku, Hamamatsu. It is owned by the Honda Motor Company and is the home ground of Honda F.C. in the Japan Football League The also known as simply the JFL is the 4th tier of the Japanese ...

Football

Honda FC is a Japanese professional football club based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. They play in the Japan Football League. History The club was founded as Honda Motor, Honda works team in 1971. They were promoted to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 i ...

which plays

Japan Football League The also known as simply the JFL is the 4th tier of the Japanese association football league system, positioned beneath the three divisions of the J.League. The league features fully professional teams that hold J.League associate membership am ...

(third division) games at their own

Miyakoda Soccer Stadium Honda Miyakoda Soccer Stadium is a stadium located in Kita-ku, Hamamatsu. It is owned by the Honda Motor Company and is the home ground of Honda F.C. in the Japan Football League The also known as simply the JFL is the 4th tier of the Japane ...

. Honda competed in the

Japan Soccer League , or JSL, was the top flight association football league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J.League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional ...

's First Division from 1981 to 1991, but chose to relegate itself and not compete in the professional divisions due to parent company

's choice to retain team ownership. Many Hamamatsu football fans prefer to follow

Júbilo Iwata is a professional Japanese association football team that currently play in the J2 League. The team name ''Júbilo'' means 'joy' in Spanish and Portuguese. The team's hometown is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium. For ...

, across the

in Iwata. Júbilo maintains a club shop within Hamamatsu. *

Volare FC Hamamatsu Volare is the Latin and Italian verb ''to fly''; with an acute accent added to the final ''e'' ("volaré"), it also becomes Spanish for ''I will fly''. It may refer to: * "Volare" (song), a popular Italian song officially titled "Nel blu, dipinto ...

, 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.

also keeps a team in the said division, but college teams cannot be promoted to the top three tiers.

Basketball

SAN-EN NeoPhoenix is a B.League professional basketball team, based in the eastern Mikawa and Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture region of central Japan. The team was founded in 1965 as the company team of the OSG Corporation, a Toyokawa-based machine parts manufa ...

plays in the

B.League The B.League is a professional men's basketball league that began in Japan in September 2016. The league is operated by the Japan Professional Basketball League and was formed as a result of a merger between the National Basketball League that w ...

, Japan's first division of professional basketball. The team plays its home games at the

Toyohashi City General Gymnasium Toyohashi City General Gymnasium is an arena in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. It is the home arena of the San-en NeoPhoenix of the B.League The B.League is a professional men's basketball league that began in Japan in September 2016. The league is o ...

. The Hamamatsu Arena was one of the host arenas of the

2006 FIBA World Championship The 2006 FIBA World Championship was the 15th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. The tournament was hosted by Japan and held from 19 August to 3 September 2006. It was co-organised by ...

. 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 The 2010 FIVB Women's World Championship was the sixteenth edition of the competition. Like the previous tournament, the 2010 edition also was held from 29 October to 14 November 2010 in Japan, though the range of venues and locations was modifie ...

Notable people

Hiroshi Amano is a Japanese physicist, engineer and inventor specializing in the field of semiconductor technology. For his work he was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Isamu Akasaki and Shuji Nakamura for "the invention of efficient bl ...

, 2014

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winner *

Haruhi Aiso is a female Japanese popular music artist. She has also written songs for Iwao Junko and Iwasaki Hiromi. Discography Singles * "Mai" (21 August 1982) * "Kohihausu nite" (5 March 1983) * "Suisaiga" (21 July 1983) * "Ichigo no Kaze" (21 April 1 ...

, singer, songwriter * Barasui, manga artist * Yuri Chinen, J-pop talent, singer *

Yōsuke Fujigaya is a former Japanese football player. Club career Fujigaya was born in Hamamatsu on 13 February 1981. After graduating from high school, he joined Consadole Sapporo in 1999. He became a regular goalkeeper instead Yohei Sato from 2003. He moved ...

, professional football player *

Yuji Fujimoto is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet (national legislature). A native of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, he graduated from Waseda University and received his master's degree from Michiga ...

, politician *

Ken Fujita (former name; Ken Ota, 太田健) is a former Japanese football player. Playing career Fujita was born in Hamamatsu on August 27, 1979. He joined J1 League club Júbilo Iwata from a youth team in 1998. However he did not play in any matches and ...

, professional football player *

Hironoshin Furuhashi was a Japanese Olympic freestyle swimmer. In 1948, he set world records in the 400 and 1,500 meter freestyles at the Japan national championships. Furuhashi and Japan were not allowed to compete at the 1948 Summer Olympics because of Japan's r ...

, Olympic swimmer *

Kazuhiro Furuhashi is a Japanese anime director and supervisor. He is amongst anime's most foremost directors, having directed and helmed the ''Rurouni Kenshin'' series (including the original television series, and its subsequent much-lauded OVA iterations), '' Z ...

, anime movie director * Tatsuya Furuhashi, professional football player * Taketoshi Gotoh, professional baseball player * Akari Hibino, voice actress *

Coco Hayashi is a Japanese actress and voice actress associated with 81 Produce and Avex Pictures. She is best known for voicing Ayumi Hayashi in ''Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter!'' and Mirai Momoyama in ''Kiratto Pri Chan''. Biography Coco Hayashi was born on ...

, voice actress * Soichiro Honda, engineer, industrialist, founder of Honda Motor Company *

Yusuke Inuzuka is a Japanese football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word ...

, professional football player *

Yasuhide Ito is a contemporary Japanese Japanese may refer to: * Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia * Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan * Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry o ...

, composer * Toshio Kakei, actor *

Takeshi Kamo was a Japanese football player who represented the Japan national team. His brother Shogo Kamo also played for Japan national team. National team career Kamo was born in Hamamatsu on February 8, 1915. In 1936, when he was a Waseda University ...

, Olympic football player *

Yoko Kando is a retired butterfly swimmer from Japan. She competed for her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the auton ...

, Olympic swimmer *

Naoyuki Kato is a Japanese illustrator, a native of Hamamatsu City, Japan. Illustration works A noted science-fiction artist since the 1970s, he has contributed to many science fiction/fantasy magazines, novels and games. He was one of the four charter me ...

, illustrator * Genichi Kawakami, former president of Yamaha *

Keisuke Kinoshita was a Japanese film director and screenwriter.Ronald Berganbr>"A satirical eye on Japan: Keisuke Kinoshita" ''The Guardian'', 5 January 1999. While lesser-known internationally than contemporaries such as Akira Kurosawa, Kenji Mizoguchi and Yasu ...

, movie director *

Naoyuki Kinoshita is a Japanese art historian. He currently works in the University of Tokyo. He was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He took part in publishing the book ''The History o ...

, art historian *

Sanae Kobayashi is a Japanese voice actress formerly affiliated with Production Baobab, and now with Sigma Seven. She has voiced in a number of anime shows and films. Some of her major roles are Allen Walker in '' D.Gray-man'', Akira Toya in ''Hikaru no Go'', ...

, voice actress *

Shigetatsu Matsunaga is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. Club career Matsunaga was educated at and played for Hamana High School and Aichi Gakuin University. After graduating from the university, he joined Nissan Motors (later ...

, professional football player *

Takuya Matsuura is a Japanese football player currently playing for Yokohama FC is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club currently plays in the J1 League, which is the first ...

, professional football player *

Kanako Momota is a Japanese singer and actress, represented by Stardust Promotion. She is best known as the leader of the girl group Momoiro Clover Z. She has also provided the Japanese dub for Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting from ''Black Pa ...

, J-pop singer and leader of

Momoiro Clover Z is a Japanese idol girl group, commonly abbreviated as MCZ or . The four members of MCZ are known for energetic performances, incorporating elements of ballet, gymnastics, and action movies. MCZ is notable for being the first female group to ho ...

* Kiiti Morita, mathematician *

Ken Namba is a Japanese composer, performer and researcher. Biography Namba was born in Hamamatsu. He studied at Toho College of Music. He studied with Kazuaki Ogikubo, Jun Nagao, Tomiko Kohjiba, Carlo Forlivesi and René Staar. His works have been pe ...

, composer * Jiro Ono, renowned sushi chef * Yuki Oshitani, professional football player *

Ken'ya Ōsumi is a Japanese dancer, and singer. He was married to singer Rumiko Koyanagi between 1989 and 2000. Appearances * ''You Gotta Quintet is a Japanese children's television program which aired on NHK Educational. About the show The program of ...

, dancer * Keisuke Ota, professional football player *

Yoshiaki Ota is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. His elder brother Keisuke Ota is also former footballer. Club career Ota was born in Hamamatsu on 11 June 1983. He joined J1 League club Júbilo Iwata for youth team in 2 ...

, professional football player *

Fumiya Sankai is a Japanese vlogger, actor, recording artist and influencer in the Philippines. He has been active in his YouTube Channel, FumiShun Base, since 2015. His fame grew when he became the first pure Japanese official housemate in Pinoy Big Brothe ...

, Vlogger and actor in the Philippines, recording artist, and a businessman * Kentaro Sato, composer *

Shinichiro Sawai was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Career Born in Hamamatsu, Sawai studied German at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Graduating in 1961, he joined the Toei Company as an assistant director and worked under such directors as ...

, movie director, screenwriter * Goro Shimura, mathematician * Ryu Shionoya, politician * Hideto Suzuki, professional football player * Koji Suzuki, science-fiction writer *

Michio Suzuki Michio Suzuki may refer to: *, Japanese businessman, inventor and founder of the Suzuki Motor Corporation *, Japanese mathematician {{hndis, Suzuki, Michio ...

, founder of Suzuki Motors * Yasutomo Suzuki, politician, mayor of Hamamatsu * Saya Takagi, actress *

Kenjiro Takayanagi was a Japanese engineer and a pioneer in the development of television. Although he failed to gain much recognition in the West, he built the world's first all-electronic television receiver, and is referred to as "the father of Japanese televisi ...

, engineer, pioneer in development of the television *

Nobuhiro Takeda is a Japanese former football player. He played for Japan national team. He was a forward and known as an opportunistic goal-scorer, making most of his quick thinking and canny positioning. He currently works at Nippon Television and belongs t ...

, professional football player *

Kenji Tsuruta is a Japanese manga artist. Among his most famous works is the science fiction series ''Spirit of Wonder'', which has been adapted into an anime series and brought him much acclaim. Profile During his formative years in university as a student of ...

, manga artist * Kōji Tsuruta, actor * Azumi Uehara, J-pop singer *

Hiromi Uehara , known professionally as Hiromi, is a Japanese jazz composer and pianist. She is known for her virtuosic technique, energetic live performances and blend of musical genres such as stride, post-bop, progressive rock, classical and fusion in her ...

, Jazz composer, pianist * Tetsuya Wakuda, Japanese-Born Australian Chef *

Kosuke Yamamoto is a Japanese footballer who plays for Júbilo Iwata. Mainly as a defensive midfielder. Career Júbilo Iwata Yamamoto, who was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, started his career at Seirei Junior Football Club before transferring to J� ...

, professional football player * Masaaki Yanagishita, professional football player * Kisho Yano, professional football player

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