It reads ありだがわちょう — Aridagawa Cho. 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Aridagawa.
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有田川町 is read ありだがわちょう (Aridagawa Cho). It is a town in Wakayama 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.
Aridagawa has a population of 25,169 across 352 km², making it the 803rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Aridagawa are Yuasa Cho (5 km), Arida Shi (7 km), Kainan Shi (11 km).