It reads ひじまち — Hiji 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. Hiji is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hiji.
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日出町 is read ひじまち (Hiji Machi). It is a town in Ōita 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.
Hiji has a population of 27,887 across 73 km², making it the 759th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 18 in Ōita.
The closest municipalities to Hiji are Beppu Shi (9 km), Kitsuki Shi (11 km), Oita Shi (17 km).