It reads なかいまち — Nakai 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. Nakai is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nakai.
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中井町 is read なかいまち (Nakai Machi). It is a town in Kanagawa 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.
Nakai has a population of 9,272 across 20 km², making it the 1160th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Nakai are Hadano Shi (6 km), Oi Machi (6 km), Oiso Machi (8 km).