Details	Date	Time
Mediatory Consultations between Foreign and Japanese People with an Administrative Scrivener (Alternative Dispute Resolution)	July 4 (Sat)	13:00 - 16:00
Consultations with a Lawyer	July 11 (Sat), 30 (Thu)	13:00 - 16:00
Consultations with a Labor and Social Insurance Consultant	July 23 (Thu)	13:00 - 16:00
Consultations about Residence Status	Aug 6 (Thu)	13:00 - 16:00

School expenses will be loaned interest-free to students who are unable to access education due to financial difficulties. Persons who wish to apply for scholarship for the next fiscal year, please check the application guidelines on the city website and prepare your application documents in advance.

Eligibility:

1. Children of those residing in Hamamatsu City, who will enroll or are currently enrolled in a university or vocational school for the 2027 academic year (monthly loan amount: up to 45,000 yen).
2. Children of those residing in Hamamatsu City, who will enroll or are currently enrolled in a high-school for the 2027 academic year and commute from a place other than their home (monthly loan limit: up to 30,000 yen).

Application Period:

July 1 (Wed) - Sept. 30 (Wed)

※Application guidelines are available on the city website, at the Educational Support Division, ward offices, administrative centers, community collaboration centers, city libraries, and in high-schools and universities in western Shizuoka prefecture.

Deadline for 1st Quarter Tax Payment:

June 30 (Tue), 2026

Pay your taxes conveniently via bank transfer!

The June payment (for April to May 2026) was deposited into your designated account on June 12 (Fri).

Inquiries:

Please contact the applicable support center from the list below

Enquiries	TEL
Chuo Child and Family Support Center	053-457-2035
Higashi Child and Family Support Center	053-424-0175
Nishi Child and Family Support Center	053-597-1157
Minami Child and Family Support Center	053-425-1463
Hamana Child and Family Support Center	053-585-1121
Kita Child and Family Support Center	053-523-2893
Tenryu Child and Family Support Center	053-922-0023

To ensure the production of safe and reliable agricultural products, the safety of agrochemical users and nearby residents, and the preservation of the local environment, please carefully verify the type and methods of use of agrochemicals before use, and use them appropriately. Also be careful when managing and storing agrochemicals to prevent them from scattering in all directions.

Facility	TEL
Kamo no Mabuchi Memorial Hall (Kamo no Mabuchi Kinenkan)	053-456-8050
Keisuke Kinoshita Memorial Museum (Kinoshita Keisuke Kinenkan)	053-457-3450
Nakamura Residence (Nakamura-ke Jūtaku)	053-597-1117 (Nishi Administrative Center)
Hamamatsu Festival Pavilion (Hamamatsu Matsuri Kaikan)	053-441-6211
Kiga Checkpoint (Kiga Sekisho)	053-523-2855
Hamamatsu Science Museum (Mirai-ra)	053-454-0178
Hamamatsu Castle (Hamamatsu-jō)	053-453-3872

※Fees may be charged for exhibitions other than the permanent exhibition

Date:

July 11 (Sat) 10:00 - 18:00

Venue:

Gallery Mall Soramo (Sunayama-cho, Chuo-ku)

Inquiries:

Shizuoka Textile Association (Shizuoka-ken seni kyōkai) (Tel. 053-456-7222)

Details	Date
1. Morning Market	July 4 (Sat) 9:00 - 11:30
2. Child Rearing Support Day (Fuwa-fuwa plaza, free goat feeding, make-your-own pizza, and a hands-on ice art experience)	July 8 (Wed) 9:00 - 17:00
3. Water playground, mini pool, and slider	July 11 (Sat) - Sept. 13 (Sun) 10:00 - 16:00
4. Playing in the Miyakoda River	Held only on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays from July 11 (Sat) to Sept. 13 (Sun), 10:00-15:00
5. Peach Harvest Experience	From early June to mid-July
6. Japanese Plum Harvest Experience	From mid-June to mid-July
7. Greenhouse-Grown Grape Harvest Experience	Early July

Details	Date
1. Planetarium show “The Stars and Stories of Tanabata - Let’s Go! To the Other Side of the Milky Way”	Until July 12 (Sun), 14:20 - 15:15 ※Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, 13:00 - 13:55 and 15:40 - 16:35
2. Workshop: Transform with a Mirror! Trick Illustrations”	June 16 (Tue) - June 28 (Sun), 13:30 – 15:30
3. The Science Museum at Night	June 27 (Sat), 17:01 - 20:00
4. Workshop – Super Balls That Glow in the Dark	June 30 (Tue) - July 12 (Sun), 13:30 – 15:30
5. Hamamatsu Micro Maker Faire	July 4 (Sat), 10:00 - 17:00
6. A short experience: “A little bit of planetarium”	July 4 (Sat) and 5 (Sun), 10:00 – 11:30

Date:

Nov 3 (Tue) 11:00 - 15:00
※No postponement because of light rain. In case of rain, the event will be postponed to November 8 (Sunday)

Application:

Apply via the website, deadline is June 30 (Tue)

Application:

Apply via the website, deadline is Dec 31 (Thu)

Date:

July 11 (Sat) 10:00 - 12:00

Date:

July 11 (Sat) 10:00 - 14:00

Venue:

ACT CITY Hamamatsu Exhibition and Event Hall (3-chome, Chuo, Chuo Ward)

Inquiries:

Hamamatsu Private School and Kindergarten Association (Tel. 053-456-3777)

In recent years, Hamamatsu has frequently appeared in NHK’s Taiga dramas, but the only series set entirely in Hamamatsu is Naotora: The Lady Warlord. It will soon be 10 years since the series aired, in 2017, and Naotora-chan the Monk of Success, a mascot created to coincide with the drama, will also turn 10 this year.
At the time of the broadcast, approximately 780,000 people visited the Taiga Drama Museum, which opened at the Miotsukushi Cultural Center. This helped foster a renewed appreciation for the region’s history and promoted the glamour of Hamamatsu, starting with Oku-hamanako (the mountainous area to the NE of Lake Hamana).
It has been about 10 years since then. Coincidentally, this year’s Taiga drama is Brothers in Arms, making it a year when Hamamatsu, the city of success where Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu spent 17 years of his life, is once again in the spotlight. This presents the perfect opportunity to widely share the appeal of Hamamatsu, which we reexamined through various projects commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the merger of 12 local municipalities in the Tenryu River and Lake Hamana Region last year.
For these reasons, this year we are organizing a series of initiatives under the label of the 10th Anniversary of Sites Affiliated with Naotora, such as the National Terraced Rice Fields Summit, events at the Kurumeki Terraced Rice Fields related to Naotora, and a Shogi Festival timed to coincide with the Shogi Oui Championship. We invite you all to take this opportunity to tour the sites associated with Naotora Ii and once again experience the region’s charm.