It reads みかさし — Mikasa 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.
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Mikasa is a city located in Sorachi Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. As of 1 October 2020, the city has an estimated population of 8,040, and the density of 27 persons per km2.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mikasa.
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三笠市 is read みかさし (Mikasa Shi). It is a city in Hokkaido Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Mikasa has a population of 8,153 across 303 km², making it the 1201st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 59th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Mikasa are Bibai Shi (10 km), Iwamizawa Shi (10 km), Naie Cho (19 km).