It reads こうさまち — Kosa 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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Kōsa is a town located in Kamimashiki District, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2024, the town had an estimated population of 10,004 in 4,441 households, and a population density of 24 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 57.93 km2 (22.37 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kosa.
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甲佐町 is read こうさまち (Kosa 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.
Kosa has a population of 9,963 across 58 km², making it the 1144th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Kosa are Misato Machi (3 km), Mifune Machi (6 km), Kashima Machi (11 km).