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Hamamatsu

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Country: Japan

Population:605,105

Time Zone:UTC+9

Hamamatsu ranked first in Japan’s happiness index for government-designated cities in both 2018 and 2022. In western Shizuoka Prefecture, it is the prefecture’s largest city and Japan’s second largest by area, covering 1,558.06 square kilometres. As of September 2023, around 780,128 people lived there across 340,591 households.