It reads ひらかわし — Hirakawa Shi. 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. Hirakawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hirakawa.
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平川市 is read ひらかわし (Hirakawa Shi). It is a city in Aomori Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
The closest municipalities to Hirakawa are Inakadate Mura (4 km), Owani Machi (8 km), Hirosaki Shi (8 km).