It reads みきちょう — Miki 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Miki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Miki.
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三木町 is read みきちょう (Miki Cho). It is a town in Kagawa 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.
Miki has a population of 26,859 across 76 km², making it the 776th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 17 in Kagawa.
The closest municipalities to Miki are Sanuki Shi (7 km), Takamatsu Shi (12 km), Ayagawa Cho (20 km).