It reads ひろかわまち — Hirokawa 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. Hirokawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hirokawa.
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広川町 is read ひろかわまち (Hirokawa Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Hirokawa has a population of 6,577 across 65 km², making it the 1274th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 56th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Hirokawa are Yame Shi (2 km), Chikugo Shi (5 km), Kurume Shi (10 km).