It reads こうしゅうし — Koshu Shi. 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. Koshu is marked in red.
Kōshū is a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 September 2020, the city had an estimated population of 29,659 in 13,141 households, and a population density of 120 persons per km². The total area of the city is 264.11 square kilometres (101.97 sq mi). The city is the home of the indigenous Koshu grape and is synonymous with viticulture and wine production in Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Koshu.
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甲州市 is read こうしゅうし (Koshu Shi). It is a city in Yamanashi Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Koshu has a population of 29,017 across 264 km², making it the 737th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 10th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Koshu are Yamanashi Shi (4 km), Fuefuki Shi (10 km), Chuo Shi (14 km).