It reads いちきくしきのし — Ichikikushikino 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.
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Ichikikushikino is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. As of 20 June 2024, the city had an estimated population of 25,912 in 13147 households, and a population density of 59 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 112.30 km2 (43.36 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ichikikushikino.
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いちき串木野市 is read いちきくしきのし (Ichikikushikino Shi). It is a city in Kagoshima Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Ichikikushikino has a population of 27,080 across 112 km², making it the 774th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Ichikikushikino are Satsumasendai Shi (11 km), Hioki Shi (15 km), Satsuma Cho (27 km).