It reads もとぶちょう — Motobu 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. Motobu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Motobu.
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本部町 is read もとぶちょう (Motobu Cho). It is a town in Okinawa 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.
Motobu has a population of 13,073 across 54 km², making it the 1053rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Motobu are Nakijin Son (8 km), Ie Son (10 km), Nago Shi (11 km).