It reads いちかわちょう — Ichikawa Cho. 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Ichikawa.
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市川町 is read いちかわちょう (Ichikawa Cho). It is a town in Hyōgo 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.
Ichikawa has a population of 11,023 across 83 km², making it the 1104th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 39th largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Ichikawa are Fukusaki Cho (4 km), Kamikawa Cho (8 km), Kasai Shi (9 km).