Japan
Chubu
Shizuoka

Hamamatsu

Hamamatsu is a city located in western , . 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 population density of 500/km2 over the total urban area of 1,558.06 km2.
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  • Type: City with 797,000 residents
  • Description: Japanese city
  • Also known as: “Hamamatsu City”, “Hamamatsu-shi”, and “Hamamatu”
  • Neighbors: , , , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Hamamatsu Station and Hamamatsu Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station on the Tōkaidō Main Line and the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, operated by the Central Japan Railway Company.

Castle
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
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, , under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.

Railway station
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Station is a railway station in , Hamamatsu, , , operated by the private railway company, Enshū Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chuo Ward.

Suburb
Photo: kcomiida, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chūō-ku is one of the three wards of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan, located in the south part of the city. It encompasses the site of , and , the central business and residential district.

Hamamatsu

Latitude
34.7167° or 34° 43′ north
Longitude
137.7333° or 137° 44′ east
Population
797,000
Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)
Inception
July 1st, 1911
United Nations Location Code
JP HMM
Open location code
8Q6VPP8M+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 763118297
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1863289
Wiki­data ID
Q185125
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hamamatsu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هاماماتسو، شيزوكا”
  • Arabic: “هاماماتسو”
  • Armenian: “Համամացու”
  • Asturian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hamamatsu”
  • Balinese: “Hamamatsu”
  • Basque: “Hamamatsu”
  • Belarusian: “Хамамацу”
  • Bengali: “হামামাতসু”
  • Breton: “Hamamatsu”
  • Bulgarian: “Хамамацу”
  • Catalan: “Hamamatsu”
  • Cebuano: “Hamamatsu”
  • Chechen: “Хамамацу”
  • Chinese: “Hamamatu-chhī”
  • Chinese: “滨松”
  • Chinese: “滨松市”
  • Chinese: “濱松”
  • Chinese: “濱松市”
  • Czech: “Hamamacu”
  • Danish: “Hamamatsu”
  • Dutch: “Hamamatsu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاماماتسو”
  • Esperanto: “Hamamaco”
  • Esperanto: “Hamamacu”
  • Esperanto: “Hamamatsu”
  • Estonian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Finnish: “Hamamatsu”
  • French: “Hamamatsu-shi”
  • French: “Hamamatsu”
  • Galician: “Hamamatsu”
  • Georgian: “ჰამამაცუ”
  • German: “Hamamatsu”
  • Greek: “Χαμαμάτσου”
  • Gujarati: “હમામાત્સુ”
  • Hausa: “Yanayin Hamamatsu”
  • Hebrew: “הממאצו”
  • Hindi: “हमामात्सू”
  • Hindi: “हामामात्सु”
  • Hungarian: “Hamamacu”
  • Icelandic: “Hamamatsu”
  • Ido: “Hamamatsu”
  • Indonesian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Interlingua: “Hamamatsu”
  • Irish: “Hamamatsu”
  • Italian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Japanese: “Hamamatsu-shi”
  • Japanese: “はままつし”
  • Japanese: “楽器の街”
  • Japanese: “楽都”
  • Japanese: “浜松”
  • Japanese: “浜松市”
  • Japanese: “浜松町”
  • Japanese: “濱松市”
  • Kannada: “ಹಮಾಮಾಟ್ಸು”
  • Kikuyu: “Hamamatsu”
  • Korean: “하마마쓰 시”
  • Korean: “하마마쓰”
  • Korean: “하마마쓰시”
  • Korean: “하마마츠 시”
  • Latvian: “Hamamacu”
  • Literary Chinese: “濱松市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamamacu”
  • Lithuanian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Macedonian: “Хамамацу”
  • Malagasy: “Hamamatsu”
  • Malay: “Hamamatsu”
  • Maltese: “Hamamatsu”
  • Marathi: “हमामात्सू”
  • Mazanderani: “هاماماتسو، شیزوئوکا”
  • Mazanderani: “هاماماتسو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hamamatu-chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Хамамацү”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamamatsu”
  • Norwegian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Ossetian: “Хамамацу”
  • Persian: “هاماماتسو، شیزوئوکا”
  • Persian: “هاماماتسو”
  • Piemontese: “Hamamatsu”
  • Polish: “Hamamatsu”
  • Portuguese: “Hamamatsu”
  • Romanian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Russian: “Хамамацу”
  • Scots: “Hamamatsu”
  • Serbian: “Hamamacu”
  • Serbian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Serbian: “Хамамацу”
  • Serbian: “浜松市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamamacu”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Silesian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Sinhala: “හමමට්සු”
  • Slovak: “Hamamacu”
  • Slovak: “Hamamatsu”
  • Slovenian: “Hamamacu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاماماتسو”
  • Spanish: “Hamamatsu Shizuoka”
  • Spanish: “Hamamatsu”
  • Sundanese: “Hamamatsu”
  • Swedish: “Hamamatsu”
  • Tagalog: “Hamamatsu”
  • Tajik: “Hamamatsu”
  • Tajik: “Ҳамаматсу”
  • Tamil: “ஹமாமாட்சு”
  • Tatar: “Хамамацу”
  • Tatar: “Һамаматсу”
  • Telugu: “హమమత్సు”
  • Thai: “ฮะมะมะสึ”
  • Thai: “ฮามามัตสึ”
  • Tumbuka: “Hamamatsu”
  • Turkish: “Hamamatsu”
  • Ukrainian: “Хамамацу”
  • Urdu: “ہاماماتسو”
  • Uzbek: “Hamamatsu”
  • Venetian: “Hamamatsu”
  • Vietnamese: “Hamamatsu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hamamatsu”
  • Welsh: “Hamamatsu”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہاماماتسو”
  • Wolof: “Hamamatsu”
  • Wu Chinese: “滨松市”
  • Yue Chinese: “濱松”

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