It reads かみかわまち — Kamikawa 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. Kamikawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kamikawa.
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神川町 is read かみかわまち (Kamikawa Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Kamikawa has a population of 13,077 across 47 km², making it the 1052nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 55th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Kamikawa are Kamisato Machi (6 km), Fujioka Shi (7 km), Honjo Shi (9 km).