It reads くしもとちょう — Kushimoto 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.
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Kushimoto is a coastal town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2021, the town had an estimated population of 15,192 in 8354 households and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 135.67 square kilometres (52.38 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kushimoto.
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串本町 is read くしもとちょう (Kushimoto 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.
Kushimoto has a population of 14,661 across 136 km², making it the 1002nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Kushimoto are Kozagawa Cho (6 km), Taiji Cho (21 km), Nachikatsuura Cho (23 km).