It reads いとだまち — Itoda 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. Itoda is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Itoda.
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糸田町 is read いとだまち (Itoda Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Itoda has a population of 8,469 across 8 km², making it the 1187th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 52nd largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Itoda are Fukuchi Machi (2 km), Tagawa Shi (4 km), Kawara Machi (6 km).