It reads むろとし — Muroto 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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Muroto is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2024, the city had an estimated population of 11,633 in 6906 households and a population density of 47 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 248.18 square kilometres (95.82 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Muroto.
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室戸市 is read むろとし (Muroto Shi). It is a city in Kōchi Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Muroto has a population of 11,543 across 248 km², making it the 1090th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Muroto are Nahari Cho (19 km), Kitagawa Mura (19 km), Tano Cho (20 km).