It reads かみのやまし — Kaminoyama 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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Kaminoyama is a city located in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 October 2020, the city had an estimated population of 29,617 in 11278 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 240.93 square kilometres (93 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kaminoyama.
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上山市 is read かみのやまし (Kaminoyama Shi). It is a city in Yamagata Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kaminoyama has a population of 29,141 across 241 km², making it the 734th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Kaminoyama are Yamanobe Machi (15 km), Nan-yo Shi (15 km), Shirataka Machi (16 km).