It reads はちまんたいし — Hachimantai 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.
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Hachimantai is a city located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2020, the city had an estimated population of 25,076, and a population density of 29 persons per km2 in 10,531 households. The total area of the city is 862.30 square kilometres (332.94 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hachimantai.
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八幡平市 is read はちまんたいし (Hachimantai Shi). It is a city in Iwate Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Hachimantai has a population of 23,742 across 862 km², making it the 824th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Hachimantai are Iwate Machi (11 km), Takizawa Shi (25 km), Morioka Shi (29 km).