It reads かみいちまち — Kamiichi 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.
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Kamiichi is a town located in Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 June 2018, the town had an estimated population of 20,827 in 7958 households and a population density of 88 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 236.71 square kilometres (91.39 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kamiichi.
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上市町 is read かみいちまち (Kamiichi Machi). It is a town in Toyama 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.
Kamiichi has a population of 19,318 across 237 km², making it the 889th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 14 in Toyama.
The closest municipalities to Kamiichi are Funahashi Mura (5 km), Tateyama Machi (6 km), Namerikawa Shi (8 km).