It reads くじゅうくりまち — Kujukuri 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kujukuri.
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九十九里町 is read くじゅうくりまち (Kujukuri 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.
Kujukuri has a population of 14,652 across 24 km², making it the 1003rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 42nd largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Kujukuri are Togane Shi (7 km), Sanmu Shi (8 km), Oamishirasato Shi (11 km).