It reads ながすまち — Nagasu 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. Nagasu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nagasu.
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長洲町 is read ながすまち (Nagasu Machi). It is a town in Kumamoto 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.
Nagasu has a population of 15,299 across 19 km², making it the 981st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Nagasu are Arao Shi (8 km), Tamana Shi (11 km), Omuta Shi (13 km).