22130 ／ はままつし
Shizuoka PrefectureWhere Japan's big 3 motorcycle makers began.
Honda, Yamaha and Suzuki01 ／ Manufacturing
Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki: three of the world's leading motorcycle makers were all born in Hamamatsu, and at the peak about 40 makers were based in the city. Musical instrument makers gather here too, led by Yamaha, Kawai and Roland, and pianos, electronic organs, wind instruments and guitars are made in the city.
02 ／ Lake Hamana
Lake Hamana is a brackish lake joined to the Enshū-nada Sea by the Imagire-guchi (今切口) channel, 200 m wide. The sandbar that once separated lake and sea is said to have broken in disasters such as the Meiō earthquake of 1498, and the place came to be called Imagire, "just broken". The lake is shallow, 5 m deep on average, and yields the mud crab known locally as dōman (ドウマン), found in only a few places in Japan.
03 ／ Forest
With the 2005 merger, the wide forests of the upper Tenryū River became part of the city. Forest covers about 103,000 ha, 66% of the city. More than 70% of it is planted cedar and cypress, known as Tenryū Birin (天竜美林) and counted among Japan's three great planted forests. In the Meiji era, Kinpara Meizen (金原明善) planted trees to put an end to the Tenryū River's floods.
Living here
On the Tōkaidō Shinkansen Hikari, Hamamatsu Station is about an hour and a half from Tokyo and about 30 minutes from Nagoya. City Hall is about 5 minutes by bus from the north exit of Hamamatsu Station. The city is the second largest municipality in Japan by area, and since January 2024 it has been divided into three wards: Chūō, Hamana and Tenryū.
−0.9% since 2015
800,866 → 790,718
490.43km² of it habitable
2024
2.5 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.6 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 市公式「浜松市の強み・魅力」（企業立地、2026-07-31 更新）の「新幹線、高速道路での所要時間」の表に載っている値 (checked 2026-09-24). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
73.0km
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
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