It reads ここのえまち — Kokonoe 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.
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Kokonoe is a town located in Kusu District, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2023, the town had an estimated population of 8,536 in 3,881 households, and a population density of 31 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 271.37 km2 (104.78 sq mi)
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kokonoe.
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九重町 is read ここのえまち (Kokonoe Machi). It is a town in Ōita 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.
Kokonoe has a population of 8,616 across 271 km², making it the 1180th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 18 in Ōita.
The closest municipalities to Kokonoe are Kusu Machi (7 km), Oguni Machi (17 km), Minamioguni Machi (20 km).