Hamamatsu

ようこそ浜松へ | Welcome to Hamamatsu (Japanese)

Why visit

Hamamatsu rewards travelers exploring Japan beyond the obvious, the Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments houses 1,500+ instruments from around the world. The Hamamatsu Castle is small but historic (Tokugawa Ieyasu's stronghold). Lake Hamana offers eel restaurants. Shoreline cycling. And the Nakatajima Sand Dunes are a startling Pacific landscape. Time it for the May Hamamatsu Festival with massive kite battles and parading floats. Spring (late March to April for cherry blossoms) and autumn (October to November) are best.

When to avoid

Hamamatsu is functional rather than visually coherent, don't expect Kyoto temples or Tokyo neon. June through July is the tsuyu rainy season. August to September brings typhoon risk. Include eel (unagi) on Lake Hamana, this is one of Japan's eel capitals, but Saturday lunch lines are long. The Hamamatsu Festival (May 3 to 5) books out hotels.

Plan Hamamatsu

Current conditions and the practical reference material that helps turn the saved places into a trip.

The next week in Hamamatsu

7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).

Today

Drizzle

30° / 24°

UV Moderate

Wed

Partly cloudy

35° / 25°

UV Very high

Thu

Partly cloudy

34° / 27°

UV Very high

Fri

Drizzle

33° / 27°

3.0 mm

UV Very high

Sat

Thunderstorm

32° / 24°

9.6 mm

UV Very high

Sun

Thunderstorm

30° / 24°

7.8 mm

UV High

Mon

Thunderstorm

29° / 24°

11.4 mm

UV High

Climate

Hot and wet season (Apr-Oct)

About 76% of the year's rain falls in these months. Typical highs around 24°C, lows around 21°C.

Cooler dry season (Nov-Mar)

Typical highs around 13°C, lows around 10°C. About 96mm of rain a month.

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Weather

28° / 26°

Typical high / low

6 mm rainfall this month

Daylight

13.5h

05:09 – 18:38local

Holidays coming up

Public holidays from Nager.Date.

Airports

closest FSZ · 43 km

Getting around Hamamatsu

Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.

Local transit operators

浜松バス

Operators and modes are aggregated from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications come from each feed’s route type codes.

About Hamamatsu

Hamamatsu 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 population density of 500/km2 (1,300/sq mi) over the total urban area of 1,558.06 km2 (601.57 sq mi). The city ranked first in the happiness index of Japan's government-designated cities, published by the Japan Research Institute, in both 2018 and 2022.

Area: 1,558 km²
Mayor: Yusuke Nakano

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