It reads なかがわまち — Nakagawa Machi.
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. Nakagawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nakagawa.
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那珂川町 is read なかがわまち (Nakagawa Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Nakagawa has a population of 50,186 across 75 km², making it the 494th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Nakagawa are Kasuga Shi (7 km), Onojo Shi (8 km), Chikushino Shi (10 km).