It reads ことひらちょう — Kotohira 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. Kotohira is marked in red.
Kotohira is a town located in Nakatado District, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2022, the town had an estimated population of 8,105 in 3618 households and a population density of 960 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 8.47 square kilometres (3.27 sq mi). The town is best known as the site of Shikoku's largest shrine complex, the Kotohira Shrine.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kotohira.
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琴平町 is read ことひらちょう (Kotohira Cho). It is a town in Kagawa 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.
Kotohira has a population of 8,466 across 8 km², making it the 1188th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 17 in Kagawa.
The closest municipalities to Kotohira are Manno Cho (2 km), Zentsuji Shi (4 km), Marugame Shi (9 km).