It reads かくだし — Kakuda 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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Kakuda is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 May 2020, the city had an estimated population of 28,539, and a population density of 190 persons per km2 in 11,494 households. The total area of the city is 147.58 square kilometres (56.98 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kakuda.
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角田市 is read かくだし (Kakuda Shi). It is a city in Miyagi Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kakuda has a population of 27,848 across 148 km², making it the 760th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 31 in Miyagi.
The closest municipalities to Kakuda are Yamamoto Cho (8 km), Ogawara Machi (8 km), Shibata Machi (9 km).