It reads いながわちょう — Inagawa 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 Inagawa.
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猪名川町 is read いながわちょう (Inagawa 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.
Inagawa has a population of 29,571 across 90 km², making it the 731st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Inagawa are Kawanishi Shi (7 km), Takarazuka Shi (8 km), Ikeda Shi (9 km).