22 Sights in Hamamatsu, Japan (with Map and Images)

Nagamatsuyama Toshun-in is a temple of the Rinzai sect of the Sōhōkōji sect located in Ozawato-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is "Mt. Nagamatsu". The main Buddha is the "Bodhisattva of the King of Enmei Jizo". The 16th shrine of the 49th Yakushi Shrine in the Far River. The sacred place of the Hamamatsu Seven Lucky Gods.

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Yamazumi Shrine is a shrine located in Mt. Yamazumi, Mizukubo-cho, Tenryu-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The former company name was a prefectural company. It enshrines the spirit of the god of Oyamagijin, who is said to be the guardian of Japan. There are worshippers from neighboring areas across the prefectural border.

Wikipedia: 山住神社 (JA)

Iwasuiji Temple is a temple of the Koyasan Shingon sect located in Hamana Ward, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Ryugu. The main honzon is Emperor Saga, the medicine man of the healing of illness. The main Buddha of the Bodhisattva Anjizo (Important Cultural Property of Japan) is known for its prayers for safe birth and child-giving.

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Hamamatsu Castle is a replica hirayama-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various fudai daimyō who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. It is also called Shusse Castle .

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Hamamatsu City Zoo is a municipal zoo located in Tateyamaji-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. It is located to the north of Hamamatsu City Flower Park, and the two are combined to form the Kanzanji Comprehensive Park.

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Nakamura Family Residence is a historical building (private house) located in Yuto-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. It has been designated as an important cultural property of Japan.

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Keisuke Kinoshita Memorial Hall is a memorial hall located in Sakaemachi, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Keisuke Kinoshita is a film director from Hamamatsu City, so it is installed in Hamamatsu City.

Wikipedia: 木下惠介記念館 (JA)

Ryuunji Temple is a temple of the Rinzai sect that is said to have been founded by Prince Yasuhito Kidera in Irino-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The name of the mountain is West Lake Mountain. The honzon is Amitabha. The opening of the mountain is Haruya Myotsu.

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Hamamatsu City Museum is a municipal museum located in Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It introduces historical materials from the Hamamatsu area from primitive times to modern times, and is adjacent to the Kuzuka Site (a national historic site), a shell mound from the Jomon period.

Wikipedia: 浜松市博物館 (JA), Website

The Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments is a museum in Hamamatsu, Japan. It is the first public museum about musical instruments in Japan. The museum contains collections of different types of instruments from various parts of the world.

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Koshinji Temple is a temple of the Rinzai sect of the Sōhōkōji sect located in Miyaguchi, Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The name of the mountain is Mt. Kongo. The main Buddha is Buddha.

Wikipedia: 庚申寺 (JA)

Ryugaiwa Cave is a limestone cave located in the fields of Hikisamachi, Hamana-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. It was discovered in 1981 by two cave enthusiasts with the permission of the landowner, Sadao Toda, and has been open to the public since 1983.

Wikipedia: 竜ヶ岩洞 (JA)

Hanakawa Sports Park is an athletic park located along the Hanagawa River (Hanakawa Town, Nishioka Town), Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. It covers an area of 16.56 hectares. NEW on October 26, 2003!! It was used as the main venue for the tennis competition of the Waka Fuji Kokutai. It was held on October 26, 2003 in the presence of the Emperor and Empress.

Wikipedia: 花川運動公園 (JA), Website

Kumano Shrine (Kumano Jinja) is a shrine located in Takatsuka-cho, Chuo-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The former company name is Gosha. It is known by the common name of Takatsuka Kumano Shrine, which bears the name of the place.

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Ashigami Shrine (Ashigami Jinja) is a shrine that sits in the Okuryo House of Mizukubo-cho, Tenryu-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Known as the rare "god of feet", there are worshippers from all over the country to pray for a healthy leg.

Wikipedia: 足神神社 (JA)

The Shijimizuka ruins is an archaeological site containing a late to final Jōmon period settlement trace and shell middens, located in what is now Naka-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The settlement was inhabited from approximately 2000 BC to 1000 BC. In 1959, the site was designated a National Historic Site and expanded and opened to the public as an archaeological park in 1984. A number of pit dwellings have been reconstructed. The site also preserves a late-19th-century farmhouse.

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Namikozo is a yokai that is transmitted throughout the Far River Province (western Shizuoka Prefecture). It is counted as one of the Seven Wonders of Enshu. It is sometimes written as a ronin boy (the reading is the same).

Wikipedia: 波小僧 (JA)

Maisaka-juku was the thirtieth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the western portion of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, the area was part of Tōtōmi Province. The kanji for the post station were originally written 舞坂 (Maisaka).

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Iinoya-gū is a Shinto shrine in Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was established in 1872, and its main festival is held annually on September 22. It is one of the Fifteen Shrines of the Kenmu Restoration.

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Seiryūji Temple is the last temple of the Jodo Sōchion-in Temple in Tenryu-ku, Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Shinkang. The name of the hospital is Chang'an Temple. The honzon is Amitabha.

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Mitake Castle was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka in the Tōkai region of Japan. It was a fortress of the local Ii clan, which later rose to prominence under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1944.

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Ryōtan-ji (龍潭寺) is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Myōshin-ji branch of the Rinzai school of Japanese Zen. located in Kita-ku, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is the head temple of one of fourteen autonomous branches of the Rinzai school. Its main image is a hibutsu statue of Kokūzō Bosatsu. The temple, including its famed Japanese garden is not open to the general public.

Wikipedia: Ryōtan-ji (Hamamatsu) (EN)