It reads いばらきまち — Ibaraki Machi.
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. Ibaraki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ibaraki.
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茨城町 is read いばらきまち (Ibaraki Machi). It is a town in Ibaraki 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.
Ibaraki has a population of 31,278 across 122 km², making it the 710th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Ibaraki are Omitama Shi (8 km), Mito Shi (10 km), Kasama Shi (12 km).