It reads こうふちょう — Kofu 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. Kofu is marked in red.
Kōfu is a town located in the northeast of Hino District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2021, the town had an estimated population of 2,737 in 1023 households and a population density of 22 persons per km². The total area of the town is 124.52 square kilometres (48.08 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kofu.
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江府町 is read こうふちょう (Kofu Cho). It is a town in Tottori 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.
Kofu has a population of 2,587 across 125 km², making it the 1493rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Kofu are Hino Cho (7 km), Hoki Cho (13 km), Shinjo Son (15 km).