It reads かみのかわまち — Kaminokawa Machi.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kaminokawa.
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上三川町 is read かみのかわまち (Kaminokawa Machi). It is a town in Tochigi 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.
Kaminokawa has a population of 30,886 across 54 km², making it the 719th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 23 in Tochigi.
The closest municipalities to Kaminokawa are Shimotsuke Shi (7 km), Mibu Machi (9 km), Mooka Shi (10 km).