is a

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located in western

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. In September 2023, the city had an estimated

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of 780,128 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, with a

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of over the total urban area of .

Overview

Hamamatsu is a member of the

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(AFHC).

History

Prehistoric ages

The area now comprising Hamamatsu has been settled since prehistoric times, with numerous remains from the

Jōmon period In Japanese history, the is the time between , during which Japan was inhabited by the Jōmon people, a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united by a common culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism an ...

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 Chūō-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The settlement was inhabited from approximately 2000 BC to 1000 ...

shell mound A midden is an old dump for domestic waste. It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occup ...

and the

Akamonue Kofun is a keyhole-shaped ''kofun'' burial mound located in the Uchino district of Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan. It is protected by the prefectural government as a national historic site. Located on the eastern edge of the Mikatahar ...

ancient tomb. File:Shijimizuka Site, tatemono.jpg,

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Kōmyōsan Kofun The is a ''Kofun period'' burial mound located in the Yamahigashi neighborhood of Tenryū-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture in the Chūbu region of Japan. The tumulus was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2020. Overview The Kō ...

Ancient ages

In the

Nara period The of the history of Japan covers the years from 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 capita ...

, it became the capital of

Tōtōmi Province was a Provinces of Japan, province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka Prefecture.Louis-Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Tōtōmi''" in . Tōtōmi bordered on Mikawa Province, Mikawa, Suruga Province, S ...

Feudal period

During the

Sengoku period The was the period in History of Japan, Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Kyōtoku incident (1454), Ōnin War (1467), or (1493) are generally chosen as th ...

Hamamatsu Castle is a ''hirayama''-style Japanese castle ruin, with some replica castle buildings. It was the seat of various '' fudai daimyō'' who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan und ...

was the home of future ''

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Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; 31 January 1543 – 1 June 1616) was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Gr ...

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Battle of Mikatagahara The took place during the Sengoku period of Japan between Takeda Shingen and Tokugawa Ieyasu in Hamamatsu, Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province on 25 January 1573. Shingen attacked Ieyasu at the plain of Mikatagahara north of Hamamatsu during hi ...

(1573)

Early modern ages

Hamamatsu flourished during the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

under a succession of ''

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'' rulers as a

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, and as a

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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.

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 minu ...

opened on the

Tōkaidō Main Line The Tōkaidō Main Line () is one of the most important railway corridors in Japan, connecting the major cities of Tokyo and Kobe via Shizuoka (city), Shizuoka, Nagoya, Kyoto and Osaka. The line, with termini at Tokyo Station, Tokyo and Kōbe St ...

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 swept across Japan from July to September 1918. Lasting for over eight weeks, the riots were the largest, most widespread, and most violent popular uprising in modern Japanese history, ultimately le ...

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

Imperial Japanese Army The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; , ''Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun'', "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan from 1871 to 1945. It played a central role in Japan’s rapid modernization during th ...

Hamamatsu Air Base is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force base located north of the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, in central Japan. History Hamamatsu Air Base was established in 1925 as an Imperial Japanese Army Air Force base to be home to the newly forme ...

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 stages of the Pacific ...

(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

Hamamatsu International Piano Competition The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition has been held every 3 years since 1991 in Hamamatsu is a Cities of Japan, city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 780,128 in 340 ...

was held. * May 1, 1994:

Act City Tower is a skyscraper in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is tall, and has 45 floors, making it the tallest building in Shizuoka Prefecture. It was constructed in 1994, and houses the Okura City Hotel in its top 17 floors, as well as obser ...

opened. * October 1, 1995: Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments opened. * April 1, 1996: Hamamatsu is designated a

core city In urban planning, a historic core city or central city is the municipality with the largest 1940 population in the present metropolitan area (metropolitan statistical area). This term was retired by the US census bureau and replaced by the term ...

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 The is a public university in Hamamatsu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Mission Its mission is to foster the exchange of ideas between the fields of cultural studies and design by having the two combined at one relatively small institution. ...

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 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

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by the central government.

Cityscapes

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Geography

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

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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 in Nagano Prefecture. It then flows through Aichi Prefecture and western Shizuoka Prefec ...

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

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s. 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

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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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Suzuki is a Japanese multinational mobility manufacturer headquartered in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka. It manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard motor, outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a va ...

, 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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, 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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* Tōei *

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* Toyone ;

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* Iida * Tenryū ;

* Iwata *

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 was ...

* Kosai *

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* Shimada

Government

Hamamatsu has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a

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city legislature of 46 members. The city contributes 15 members to the Shizuoka Prefectural Assembly.

Wards

Hamamatsu is administratively divided into three wards:

Reorganization

On 1 January 2024, the number of wards was reduced from seven to three as part of a municipal reorganization. Naka-ku, Higashi-ku, Nishi-ku, Minami-ku and Kita-ku were merged into a new Chūō-ku, Hamakita-ku and Kita-ku were merged to form Hamana-ku, while Tenryu-ku will remain unchanged. The reorganization was initially approved by a referendum held on April 7, 2019.

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 multinational 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 Prefect ...

* Suzuki Motor Co. *

Tōkai Gakki , often referred to as Tokai Guitars, is a Japanese musical instrument manufacturer situated in Hamamatsu city, Shizuoka prefecture. Tokai is one of Japan's leading companies in the business. The company was founded in 1947 by Tadayouki Adachi an ...

(also known as ''Tokai Guitars Company Ltd.'') *

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Companies founded in Hamamatsu

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Media

Radio stations

* FM Haro! (JOZZ6AB FM, 76.1 MHz) * K-MIX (JOKU FM, 78.4 MHz) * NHK FM (JOPK FM, 82.1 MHz) * SBS Radio (1404 kHz / 94.7 MHz) * Radio Phoenix (internet)

Transportation

Airways

Airport

There are no commercial airports in Hamamatsu. However,

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() is the closest, located from Hamamatsu Station, between

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and Shimada.

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

Railways

High-Speed Rail

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Tōkaidō Shinkansen The is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the San'yō Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opening in 19 ...

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

Conventional Lines

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Enshū Railway *

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: - ;

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) *

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Hiways

* San-en Nanshin Expressway (under construction)

Bypasses

*Hamamatsu Bypass *Hamana Bypass

Japan National Highways

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Education

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Colleges and universities

* Hamamatsu Gakuin University * Hamamatsu University * Hamamatsu University School of Medicine *

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, Hamamatsu campus *

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(Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Informatics) *

* Tokoha University, Hamamatsu campus

Primary and secondary schools

Senior high schools operated by Shizuoka Prefecture: * Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu North High School ( 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 ( 静岡県立浜松東高等学校) * Shizuoka Prefectural Hamamatsu South High School ( 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 was a feudal domain under the Tok ...

( 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 is a senior high school in Hamamatsu, Japan, operated by the city government. Because the city of Hamamatsu has one of the largest non-Japanese populations in the country, 60% of which is composed of expatriates of Brazilian descent.Sugino, Tos ...

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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Escola Alegria de Saber is a network of Brazilian schools in Japan, Brazilian international schools in Japan. It has campuses in Aichi Prefecture, Aichi, Gunma Prefecture, Gunma, Mie Prefecture, Mie, and Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka prefectures. The campuses, which have ...

– Primary and secondary school * Escola Alcance – Primary school It has one combined Peruvian school ( ペルー学校) and Brazilian primary school,

Mundo de Alegría is a Peruvian international school ( ペルー学校) in Chūō-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. , there were 932

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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,

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(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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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 (

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. p. 4/8. Retrieved on October 12, 2015. As of 2008, 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. As of 2010, 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

Observatory: Hamamatsu's only

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, 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 incl ...

, 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

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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 inte ...

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.　 * is a

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in the city. It was formed from a merger of two shrines that were too damaged by the

to be independent. *

: 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 carp ('' Cyprinus'' sp.) that are kept for decorative purposes in outdoor koi ponds or water gardens. Koi is an informal name for the colored variants of carp kept for ornamental purposes. ...

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's ...

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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 Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot embers or stones. It has been practiced by many people and cultures in many parts of the world, with the earliest known reference dating from Iron Age India . It is often used as a rite ...

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 member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

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 ...

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 sou ...

Hamamatsu Kite Festival

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

Hamamatsu Kite Festival Hamamatsu Kite Festival (浜松まつり) is a 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 th ...

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

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: 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 Kammu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means in Japanese. It is a ...

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 th ...

readings.

Inasa Puppet Festival

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

puppet A puppet is an object, often resembling a human, animal or Legendary creature, mythical figure, that is animated or manipulated by a person called a puppeteer. Puppetry is an ancient form of theatre which dates back to the 5th century BC in anci ...

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 The litter is a class of wheelless vehicles, a type of human-powered transport, for the transport of people. Smaller litters may take the form of open chairs or beds carried by two or more carriers, some being enclosed for protection from the el ...

along with her entourage of over 100 people including maids,

samurai The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...

, and servants makes for a splendid scene beneath the

cherry blossom The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in ''Prunus'' subgenus '' Cerasus''. ''Sakura'' usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of ''Prunus serrulata'', not trees grown for their fruit (although ...

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

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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'', the Chinese plum or Japanese apricot, is a tree species in the family Rosaceae. Along with bamboo, the plant is intimately associated with art, literature, and everyday life in China, from where it was then introduced to Kor ...

'' trees pruned to give the appearance of

dragon A dragon is a Magic (supernatural), magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in Western cultures since the Hi ...

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

Sports

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Hamamatsu Arena is a multipurpose indoor sporting arena located in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It is a 15-minute walk from Tenryūgawa Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line railway, or a 10-minute drive from the Hamamatsu Interchange on the Tōmei Expressway. ...

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Honda Miyakoda Soccer Stadium Honda Miyakoda Soccer Stadium is a stadium located in Hamana-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 Japa ...

Football

Honda FC commonly known as is a Japanese professional football club based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. They currently play in the Japan Football League, the country's 4th tier of semi-professional league football. History The club was founded as Honda M ...

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 100 Year Plan club sta ...

(third division) games at their own Miyakoda Soccer Stadium. Honda competed in the

Japan Soccer League ; 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 Cup, JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professi ...

'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 Japanese professional association football, football team based in Iwata, Shizuoka, Iwata, located in Shizuoka Prefecture. The club competes in J2 League following relegation from J1 League in 2024 J1 League, 2024. Etymology The team's ...

, across the

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 The are a Japanese professional basketball team based in the eastern Mikawa Province, Mikawa and Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture region of central Japan, that competes in the B.League. The team was founded in 1965, as the company team of the OSG ...

plays in the

B.League The B.League is a men's professional basketball league in Japan. 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 was operated by the FIBA-affi ...

, 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, Japan's professional basketball league. Gallery Image:Toyohashi City General Gymnasium 2.jpg, Image:Toyoh ...

. The

was one of the host arenas of the

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. 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 modifi ...

International relations

Sister cities

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

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 b ...

, 2014

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winner * Haruhi Aiso, singer, songwriter *

Barasui https://web.archive.org/web/20071019004322/http://manganomori.net/00000001/mag67.htm is the pseudonym of a Japanese manga artist. He is most known for the manga series '' Strawberry Marshmallow'', which has been made into an anime i ...

, manga artist *

Yuri Chinen , is a Japanese singer and actor as well as member of Hey! Say! JUMP. He is under the management of Johnny & Associates. Early life Chinen is the son of Takashi Chinen, a former Japanese gymnast who won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Oly ...

, 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 move ...

, professional football player * Yuji Fujimoto, politician * Ken Fujita, 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 ...

, Olympic swimmer *

Kazuhiro Furuhashi is a Japanese anime director and supervisor. He is amongst anime's most foremost directors, having directed the '' Rurouni Kenshin'' series (including the original television series, and its subsequent original video animation iterations), '' Zi ...

, anime movie director *

Tatsuya Furuhashi is a Japanese football player. He last played for Japan Football League club Honda FC. Playing career Furuhashi started his career with semi-professional Japan Football League team Honda FC in 1999, while also working as a factory worker. He ...

, professional football player *

Taketoshi Gotoh is a former Japanese baseball player. He played infielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions and Yokohama DeNA BayStars The are a professional baseball team in the Japanese Central League. Their home field is Yokohama Stadium, located in central Yo ...

, professional baseball player *

Akari Hibino is a Japanese voice actress best known for her role as the young Tsubasa Oozora in the soccer anime ''Captain Tsubasa''. Other major roles include Konpoco in '' Esper Mami'', Asa in ''Project A-Ko'', and Shinji in ''Sonic Soldier Borgman''. In ' ...

, voice actress *

Coco Hayashi is a Japanese actress who specializes in voice acting. She voiced Ayumi Hayashi in ''Wake Up, Girls! New Chapter!'' and Mirai Momoyama in '' Kiratto Pri Chan''. Biography Hayashi was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, to an anime-loving f ...

, voice actress *

Soichiro Honda was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and oversaw its expansion from a wooden shack manufacturing bicycle motors to a multinational automobile and motorcycle manufacturer. Early years 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, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally m ...

, professional football player *

Yasuhide Ito is a contemporary Japanese composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled p ...

, composer *

Toshio Kakei (born 10 August 1962 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. In September 2023, the city had an estimated population of 780,128 in 340,591 households, making it the prefecture's largest city, with a pop ...

, actor * Takeshi Kamo, 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 northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the Autono ...

, Olympic swimmer * Naoyuki Kato, illustrator *

Genichi Kawakami was the president of the Yamaha Corporation from 1950 to 1977, and again from 1980 to 1983. He is often credited with the international success of Yamaha and was also widely influential as a community music educator. Born in Hamakita, 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 ...

, movie director *

Naoyuki Kinoshita is a Japanese art historian. He currently works in the University of Tokyo. He was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Shizuoka Prefecture has a popu ...

, 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'', Miyuki Tanokura in '' Kaze no ...

, voice actress *

Shigetatsu Matsunaga is a Japanese football goalkeeper coach and former football player. He is the goalkeeper coach for J1 League club Yokohama Marinos. Club career Matsunaga was educated at and played for Hamana High School and Aichi Gakuin University. After gr ...

, professional football player *

Takuya Matsuura is a Japanese football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally m ...

, 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 (Marvel Cinematic Universe), Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic ...

, 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 was a Japanese mathematician working in algebra and topology. Morita was born in 1915 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo Higher Normal School in 1936. Three years later he was appointed assistant at the Tokyo Univer ...

, mathematician * Ken Namba, composer * Jiro Ono, renowned sushi chef * Yuki Oshitani, professional football player * Ken'ya Ōsumi, dancer * Keisuke Ota, professional football player * Yoshiaki Ota, 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 Brother ...

, 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 was a Japanese mathematician and Michael Henry Strater Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University who worked in number theory, automorphic forms, and arithmetic geometry. He was known for developing the theory of complex multip ...

, mathematician *

Ryu Shionoya is a Japanese masculine given name and family name meaning "dragon", "noble", "prosperous", or "flow". Ryū, Ryu, or ryu may also refer to: Fiction * ''Ryū'' (manga), a 1986 series by Masao Yajima and Akira Oze * , a 1919 book by Ryūnosuke Aku ...

, politician *

Hideto Suzuki is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. Club career Suzuki was born in Hamamatsu on 7 October 1974. After graduating from high school, he joined Japan Football League club Yamaha Motors (later ''J� ...

, professional football player *

Koji Suzuki is a Japanese writer, who was born in Hamamatsu and lives in Tokyo. Suzuki is the author of the Ring (novel series), ''Ring'' novels, which have been adapted into other formats, including films, manga, TV series and video games. He has written ...

, science-fiction writer * Michio Suzuki, founder of Suzuki Motors *

Yasutomo Suzuki is a Japanese politician who is the current governor of Shizuoka Prefecture. Early life Suzuki graduated from Keio University in 1980. Political career Suzuki served in the House of Representatives in the National Diet for two terms, be ...

, politician, mayor of Hamamatsu *

Saya Takagi . She is a Japanese actress turned activist for the legalization of cannabis in Japan. Biography Saya Takagi started smoking cannabis when she was 17.

, 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 televis ...

, 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, manga artist *

Kōji Tsuruta , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Sayaka Tsuruta, is an actress. Career Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised ...

, actor *

Azumi Uehara is a former Japanese Porn actress and Japanese pop singer. Life and career Uehara debuted in 2001 with the song which was featured on the anime ''Detective Conan ''Case Closed'', also known as , is a Japanese manga series writte ...

, J-pop singer *

Hiromi Uehara , often known mononymously as Hiromi, is a Grammy Award winning Japanese jazz composer and pianist. She is known for her virtuosic technique, energetic live performances and blending of musical genres such as stride, post-bop, progressive rock ...

, Jazz composer, pianist *

Tetsuya Wakuda (born 18 June 1959) is a Japanese-born Australian chef based in Sydney. He was the leading judge in the final episode of the second season of '' Junior MasterChef Australia''. Background Early life Tetsuya Wakuda was born on June 18, 1959, i ...

, Japanese-Born Australian Chef * Hiroki Yamada, professional football player * Kosuke Yamamoto, professional football player * Masaaki Yanagishita, professional football player *

Kisho Yano is a Japanese professional association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward or right-back for Tochigi SC. Club career Yano was born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka. He was chosen as one of the ...

, professional football player

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Overview

History

Prehistoric ages

Ancient ages

Feudal period

Early modern ages

Late modern ages

Contemporary ages

Cityscapes

Geography

Climate

Demographics

Foreign population

Neighboring municipalities

Government

Wards

Reorganization

Economy

Companies headquartered in Hamamatsu

Companies founded in Hamamatsu

Media

Radio stations

Transportation

Airways

Airport

Railways

High-Speed Rail

Conventional Lines

Roads

Expressways

Hiways

Bypasses

Japan National Highways

Education

Colleges and universities

Primary and secondary schools

Multicultural education

Local attractions

Culture

Festivals

Akiha Fire Festival

Enshū Dainenbutsu

Hamamatsu Kite Festival

Hamakita Hiryu Festival

Hamamatsu International Piano Competition

Hamakita Man'yō Festival

Inasa Puppet Festival

Princess Road Festival

Samba Festival

Shoryu Weeping Ume Blossom Festival

Sports

Football

Basketball

Women's volleyball

International relations

Sister cities

Twinned cities

Friendship cities

Notable people

See also

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