It reads はがまち — Haga 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. Haga is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Haga.
These are affiliate links. Nihoner may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
芳賀町 is read はがまち (Haga Machi). It is a town in Tochigi 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.
Haga has a population of 14,833 across 70 km², making it the 996th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 23 in Tochigi.
The closest municipalities to Haga are Ichikai Machi (4 km), Mashiko Machi (8 km), Mooka Shi (11 km).