It reads おちちょう — Ochi Cho. 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. Ochi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ochi.
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越知町 is read おちちょう (Ochi Cho). It is a town in Kōchi 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.
Ochi has a population of 5,111 across 112 km², making it the 1344th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Ochi are Sakawa Cho (4 km), Niyodogawa Cho (10 km), Hidaka Mura (11 km).