It reads こしみずちょう — Koshimizu 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. Koshimizu is marked in red.
Koshimizu is a town in Okhotsk Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Koshimizu.
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小清水町 is read こしみずちょう (Koshimizu Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Koshimizu has a population of 4,675 across 287 km², making it the 1369th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 96th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Koshimizu are Kiyosato Cho (10 km), Shari Cho (18 km), Abashiri Shi (24 km).