It reads はちじょうまち — Hachijo 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.
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Hachijō is a town located in Hachijō Subprefecture, Tokyo Metropolis, Japan. As of 1 December 2022, the town had an estimated population of 7,056, and a population density of 97.7 persons per km2. Its total area is 72.24 square kilometres (27.89 sq mi). Electric power for the town is provided by a geothermal power station and a wind farm.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hachijo.
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八丈町 is read はちじょうまち (Hachijo Machi). It is a town in Tokyo 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.
Hachijo has a population of 6,977 across 72 km², making it the 1247th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Hachijo are Mikurajima Mura (88 km), Miyake Mura (109 km), Kozushima Mura (136 km).