It reads はとやままち — Hatoyama 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Hatoyama.
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鳩山町 is read はとやままち (Hatoyama Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Hatoyama has a population of 13,365 across 26 km², making it the 1041st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 54th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Hatoyama are Moroyama Machi (5 km), Ogose Machi (5 km), Tokigawa Machi (6 km).