It reads かわさきまち — Kawasaki 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. Kawasaki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kawasaki.
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川崎町 is read かわさきまち (Kawasaki 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.
Kawasaki has a population of 8,435 across 271 km², making it the 1191st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 53rd largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Kawasaki are Oto Machi (5 km), Soeda Machi (5 km), Tagawa Shi (6 km).