It reads あやがわちょう — Ayagawa 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.
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Ayagawa is a town located in Ayauta District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the town had an estimated population of 23,427 in 10108 households and a population density of 960 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 109.75 square kilometres (42.37 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ayagawa.
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綾川町 is read あやがわちょう (Ayagawa Cho). It is a town in Kagawa 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.
Ayagawa has a population of 22,730 across 110 km², making it the 840th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 17 in Kagawa.
The closest municipalities to Ayagawa are Sakaide Shi (9 km), Kotohira Cho (10 km), Utazu Cho (11 km).