It reads みはるまち — Miharu 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. Miharu is marked in red.
Miharu is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 March 2020, the town had an estimated population of 17,471 in 6348 households, and a population density of 240 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 72.76 square kilometres (28.09 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Miharu.
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三春町 is read みはるまち (Miharu Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Miharu has a population of 17,319 across 73 km², making it the 931st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Miharu are Tamura Shi (7 km), Motomiya Shi (12 km), Koriyama Shi (13 km).