It reads あいかわまち — Aikawa Machi.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Aikawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Aikawa.
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愛川町 is read あいかわまち (Aikawa Machi). It is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
Aikawa has a population of 39,260 across 34 km², making it the 608th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Aikawa are Kiyokawa Mura (7 km), Sagamihara Shi (7 km), Zama Shi (8 km).