It reads ふくさきちょう — Fukusaki 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Fukusaki.
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福崎町 is read ふくさきちょう (Fukusaki Cho). It is a town in Hyōgo 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.
Fukusaki has a population of 19,143 across 46 km², making it the 892nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Fukusaki are Ichikawa Cho (4 km), Kasai Shi (8 km), Kamikawa Cho (11 km).