It reads かわきたまち — Kawakita 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. Kawakita is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kawakita.
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川北町 is read かわきたまち (Kawakita Machi). It is a town in Ishikawa 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.
Kawakita has a population of 6,227 across 15 km², making it the 1292nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Kawakita are Nomi Shi (3 km), Hakusan Shi (4 km), Nonoichi Shi (9 km).