It reads けいせんまち — Keisen 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. Keisen is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Keisen.
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桂川町 is read けいせんまち (Keisen 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.
Keisen has a population of 12,876 across 20 km², making it the 1058th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 48th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Keisen are Kama Shi (6 km), Iizuka Shi (9 km), Kawasaki Machi (12 km).