It reads きくようまち — Kikuyo Machi.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kikuyo.
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菊陽町 is read きくようまち (Kikuyo Machi). It is a town in Kumamoto 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.
Kikuyo has a population of 43,430 across 37 km², making it the 566th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Kikuyo are Koshi Shi (5 km), Ozu Machi (5 km), Mashiki Machi (8 km).