It reads いたやなぎまち — Itayanagi 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. Itayanagi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Itayanagi.
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板柳町 is read いたやなぎまち (Itayanagi Machi). It is a town in Aomori 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.
Itayanagi has a population of 12,681 across 42 km², making it the 1061st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Itayanagi are Fujisaki Machi (6 km), Tsuruta Machi (8 km), Hirosaki Shi (9 km).