It reads かんだまち — Kanda Machi.
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. Kanda is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kanda.
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苅田町 is read かんだまち (Kanda Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Kanda has a population of 36,075 across 47 km², making it the 632nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Kanda are Yukuhashi Shi (4 km), Miyako Machi (10 km), Kitakyushu Shi (15 km).