It reads くしまし — Kushima 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.
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Kushima is a city located in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2023, the city had an estimated population of 15,623 in 6950 households, and a population density of 53 persons per km². The total area of the city is 295.16 km2 (113.96 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kushima.
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串間市 is read くしまし (Kushima Shi). It is a city in Miyazaki Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Kushima has a population of 16,744 across 295 km², making it the 940th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 26 in Miyazaki.
The closest municipalities to Kushima are Shibushi Shi (12 km), Nichinan Shi (21 km), Osaki Cho (22 km).