It reads ふらのし — Furano 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. Furano is marked in red.
Furano is a city in the prefecture of Hokkaido, Japan, located in the southern reaches of Kamikawa Subprefecture, under whose jurisdiction it resides. Well known throughout Japan as a tourism destination, it is famous for its lavender fields, the television drama Kita no Kuni kara and the Furano Ski Resort, which held the Snowboarding World Cup in recent years. As of September 2016, the city has an estimated population of 22,715 and a density of 38 persons per km2. The total area is 600.97 km2 (232.04 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Furano.
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富良野市 is read ふらのし (Furano 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.
Furano has a population of 21,071 across 601 km², making it the 863rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Furano are Nakafurano Cho (6 km), Kamifurano Cho (13 km), Shibetsu Shi (19 km).