It reads かねがさきちょう — Kanegasaki Cho. 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. Kanegasaki is marked in red.
Kanegasaki is a town located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 April 2020, the town had an estimated population of 15,580, and a population density of 87 persons per km² in 6,155 households. The total area of the town is 179.76 square kilometres (69.41 sq mi). In June 2001, the 34.8 hectare old centre of town was protected as an Important Preservation District by the national government for its traditional samurai residences.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kanegasaki.
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金ケ崎町 is read かねがさきちょう (Kanegasaki Cho). It is a town in Iwate 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.
Kanegasaki has a population of 15,337 across 180 km², making it the 979th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Kanegasaki are Oshu Shi (6 km), Kitakami Shi (10 km), Hanamaki Shi (21 km).