It reads かわじままち — Kawajima 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. Kawajima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kawajima.
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川島町 is read かわじままち (Kawajima 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.
Kawajima has a population of 19,362 across 42 km², making it the 887th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 51st largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Kawajima are Kawagoe Shi (5 km), Sakado Shi (6 km), Tsurugashima Shi (8 km).