It reads みかわまち — Mikawa 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. Mikawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mikawa.
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三川町 is read みかわまち (Mikawa Machi). It is a town in Yamagata 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.
Mikawa has a population of 7,533 across 33 km², making it the 1225th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Mikawa are Tsuruoka Shi (6 km), Shonai Machi (8 km), Sakata Shi (15 km).