It reads ちづちょう — Chizu 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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Chizu is a town located in Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2024, the town had an estimated population of 5,906 in 2681 households and a population density of 26.3 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 224.70 square kilometres (86.76 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Chizu.
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智頭町 is read ちづちょう (Chizu Cho). It is a town in Tottori 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.
Chizu has a population of 6,332 across 225 km², making it the 1286th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Chizu are Nishiawakura Son (14 km), Yazu Cho (15 km), Wakasa Cho (17 km).