It reads ながらまち — Nagara 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. Nagara is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nagara.
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長柄町 is read ながらまち (Nagara Machi). It is a town in Chiba 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.
Nagara has a population of 6,664 across 47 km², making it the 1268th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 53rd largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Nagara are Chonan Machi (4 km), Mobara Shi (7 km), Mutsuzawa Machi (12 km).