It reads ふながたまち — Funagata 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. Funagata is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Funagata.
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舟形町 is read ふながたまち (Funagata Machi). It is a town in Yamagata 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.
The closest municipalities to Funagata are Okura Mura (9 km), Shinjo Shi (9 km), Obanazawa Shi (12 km).