It reads かみさとまち — Kamisato 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. Kamisato is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kamisato.
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上里町 is read かみさとまち (Kamisato 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.
Kamisato has a population of 29,987 across 29 km², making it the 727th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 48th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Kamisato are Honjo Shi (5 km), Fujioka Shi (5 km), Tamamura Machi (6 km).