It reads かすやまち — Kasuya 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. Kasuya is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kasuya.
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粕屋町 is read かすやまち (Kasuya 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.
Kasuya has a population of 47,981 across 14 km², making it the 519th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Kasuya are Shime Machi (2 km), Sue Machi (4 km), Hisayama Machi (5 km).