It reads はやままち — Hayama Machi.
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 Hayama.
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葉山町 is read はやままち (Hayama Machi). It is a town in Kanagawa 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.
Hayama has a population of 31,546 across 17 km², making it the 705th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Hayama are Zushi Shi (2 km), Kamakura Shi (7 km), Yokosuka Shi (8 km).