It reads はやかわちょう — Hayakawa Cho. 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. Hayakawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hayakawa.
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早川町 is read はやかわちょう (Hayakawa Cho). It is a town in Yamanashi 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.
Hayakawa has a population of 935 across 369860000 km², making it the 1581st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Hayakawa are Minobu Cho (11 km), Ichikawamisato Cho (22 km), Minami-alps Shi (25 km).