Hamamatsu is the largest city in the Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan.Hamamatsu City: Demographic Profile The city is home to the largest population of Brazilians in Japan and is called the "City of Music".Hamamatsu City: Demographic Profile Hamamatsu City: Musical Culture

The name of Hamamatsu originated from the Nara Period, when it was then called Hamatsu. The area became a battlefield between warring clans Tokugawa, Imagawa and Takeda. Hamamatsu Castle was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu which he moved into in 1570.Hometown Homepage: Places to Visit In 1871, Hamamatsu became capital of the Hamamatsu Prefecture to west of Shizuoka. The town was established in 1888 and by 1900, companies were established in Hamamatsu that would later become major industries of the city. Hamamatsu became a municipality in 1911, and was heavily bombed in the early morning of June 18, 1945. Act City was built in 1994, and Hamamatsu became a core city on April 1, 1996.

• Hamamatsu Castle
• Act City Tower Observatory
• Chopin Monument

• Michio Suzuki, founder (Suzuki Motor Corporation)Suzuki Cycles.org: Suzuki History - From Looms to cyclemotors
• Soichiro Honda, founder (Honda Corporation)Honda Worldwide: Joy of Manufacturing (1936)
• Torakusu Yamaha, founder (Yamaha Corporation)Yamaha: About Yamaha
• Kenjiro Takayanagi, inventorNHK: Kenjiro Takayanagi: Father of Japanese Television
• Koichi Kawai, founder (Kawai Musical Instruments Manfacturing)Kawai America Corporation: The Kawai Legacy

• Toyota Rent-a-Car: Hamamatsu Store Searches
• Mazda Rent-a-Car:
  • (South Hamamatsu Station) 053-454-5656
  • (Kido Store Hamamatsu) 053-411-5656
• Nissan Rent-a-Car:
  • (Hamamatsu Shinkansen Station 1) 053-454-4123
  • (Hamamatsu Shinkansen Station 2) 053-455-4123
  • (Kita-ku Hamamatsu) 053-420-8123

• Soccer: Honda FC