It reads こざがわちょう — Kozagawa 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. Kozagawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kozagawa.
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古座川町 is read こざがわちょう (Kozagawa Cho). It is a town in Wakayama 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.
Kozagawa has a population of 2,451 across 294 km², making it the 1506th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Kozagawa are Kushimoto Cho (6 km), Taiji Cho (17 km), Nachikatsuura Cho (18 km).