It reads あみまち — Ami Machi.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Ami.
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阿見町 is read あみまち (Ami Machi). It is a town in Ibaraki 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.
Ami has a population of 48,072 across 71 km², making it the 517th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Ami are Tsuchiura Shi (6 km), Ushiku Shi (6 km), Miho Mura (9 km).