It reads いかわまち — Ikawa 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. Ikawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ikawa.
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井川町 is read いかわまち (Ikawa Machi). It is a town in Akita 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.
Ikawa has a population of 4,482 across 48 km², making it the 1383rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 24 in Akita.
The closest municipalities to Ikawa are Hachirogata Machi (4 km), Gojome Machi (5 km), Katagami Shi (7 km).