It reads あさぎりちょう — Asagiri 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 Asagiri.
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あさぎり町 is read あさぎりちょう (Asagiri Cho). It is a town in Kumamoto 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.
Asagiri has a population of 14,448 across 160 km², making it the 1008th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Asagiri are Taragi Machi (5 km), Nishiki Machi (6 km), Yunomae Machi (9 km).