It reads はりまちょう — Harima Cho.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Harima.
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播磨町 is read はりまちょう (Harima Cho). It is a town in Hyōgo 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.
Harima has a population of 33,822 across 9 km², making it the 665th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Harima are Kakogawa Shi (6 km), Takasago Shi (11 km), Akashi Shi (13 km).