It reads あいおいし — Aioi Shi. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
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. Aioi is marked in red.
Aioi is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2022, the city had an estimated population of 28,208 in 13143 households and a population density of 310 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 90.4 square kilometres (34.9 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Aioi.
These are affiliate links. Nihoner may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
相生市 is read あいおいし (Aioi Shi). It is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Aioi has a population of 28,350 across 90 km², making it the 751st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Aioi are Ako Shi (9 km), Tatsuno Shi (9 km), Taishi Cho (10 km).