It reads なめがわまち — Namegawa Machi.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Namegawa.
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滑川町 is read なめがわまち (Namegawa Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Namegawa has a population of 32,317 across 55 km², making it the 690th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 46th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Namegawa are Ranzan Machi (3 km), Higashimatsuyama Shi (5 km), Tokigawa Machi (8 km).