It reads ふじかわぐちこまち — Fujikawaguchiko 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. Fujikawaguchiko is marked in red.
Fujikawaguchiko is a town located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2019, the town had an estimated population of 26,542 in 10,618 households, and a population density of 170 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 158.40 square kilometres (61.16 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Fujikawaguchiko.
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富士河口湖町 is read ふじかわぐちこまち (Fujikawaguchiko Machi). It is a town in Yamanashi 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.
Fujikawaguchiko has a population of 25,495 across 158 km², making it the 798th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Fujikawaguchiko are Fujiyoshida Shi (5 km), Narusawa Mura (6 km), Nishikatsura Cho (7 km).