It reads あしやまち — Ashiya Machi. 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. Ashiya is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ashiya.
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芦屋町 is read あしやまち (Ashiya Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Ashiya has a population of 13,559 across 12 km², making it the 1036th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 47th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Ashiya are Mizumaki Machi (5 km), Onga Cho (6 km), Okagaki Machi (6 km).