It reads きやまちょう — Kiyama Cho. 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. Kiyama is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kiyama.
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基山町 is read きやまちょう (Kiyama Cho). It is a town in Saga 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.
Kiyama has a population of 17,455 across 22 km², making it the 926th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 20 in Saga.
The closest municipalities to Kiyama are Tosu Shi (4 km), Ogori Shi (4 km), Chikuzen Machi (7 km).