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title: Hamamatsu
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# Hamamatsu

Travel journal from Hamamatsu, with 7 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Osawa, the village in the sky, Shohachiman Shrine and the Wishing Bell in the Sky, Rice cooked over a kamado, Satsuki's lunch box.

## Journeys

- [Lighting the kamado in a house in the sky](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/hamamatsu/index.md): Old house in the sky（2022-12-23）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Rice cooked over a kamado](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/rice-cooked-over-a-kamado/index.md): In this house the tiled kamado is still in daily use.
- [Satsuki's lunch box](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/satsukis-lunch-box/index.md): A recreation of the lunch Satsuki gets up early to make in My Neighbor Totoro: rice cooked over a kamado, grilled dried sardines, green peas, pink sakura denbu and a pickled plum.
- [Wild boar hot pot over the hearth](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/wild-boar-hot-pot-over/index.md): Most of Hamamatsu's Tenryu Ward is forest, and the Tenryu Gibier Fes, a festival of wild game, is held in Futamata (its fifth edition was in May 2025).
- [Skewered yamame trout](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/skewered-yamame-trout/index.md): Every summer a yamame-catching festival is held on the Misakubo River (the 28th was in July 2025).

## A little of each town’s story

- [Osawa, the village in the sky](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/osawa-the-village-in-the-sky/index.md): A village high in the mountains of Misakubo, in Hamamatsu's Tenryu Ward.
- [Shohachiman Shrine and the Wishing Bell in the Sky](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/shohachiman-shrine-and-the-wishing-bell/index.md): The only shrine in Osawa, with a stone torii and a small hall in a grove of cedars.
- [Shizuoka green tea](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/shizuoka-green-tea/index.md): Shizuoka has the largest tea-growing area in Japan: 11,600 hectares in 2025, or 34.7 percent of the national total, and it also leads in the value of crude tea produced (9.9 billion yen in 2024, 31.5…