It reads ふかがわし — Fukagawa Shi. 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. Fukagawa is marked in red.
Fukagawa is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Fukagawa.
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深川市 is read ふかがわし (Fukagawa Shi). It is a city in Hokkaido Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Fukagawa has a population of 20,086 across 529 km², making it the 875th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Fukagawa are Moseushi Cho (8 km), Chippubetsu Cho (9 km), Numata Cho (13 km).