It reads ふくちまち — Fukuchi 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. Fukuchi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Fukuchi.
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福智町 is read ふくちまち (Fukuchi 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.
Fukuchi has a population of 21,360 across 42 km², making it the 859th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 40th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Fukuchi are Itoda Machi (2 km), Tagawa Shi (5 km), Kawara Machi (6 km).