It reads こうざきまち — Kozaki 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Kozaki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kozaki.
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神崎町 is read こうざきまち (Kozaki Machi). It is a town in Chiba 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.
Kozaki has a population of 5,663 across 20 km², making it the 1321st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 54th largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Kozaki are Inashiki Shi (9 km), Namegata Shi (13 km), Miho Mura (14 km).