It reads おおがわらまち — Ogawara 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. Ogawara is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ogawara.
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大河原町 is read おおがわらまち (Ogawara Machi). It is a town in Miyagi 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.
Ogawara has a population of 23,586 across 25 km², making it the 827th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 31 in Miyagi.
The closest municipalities to Ogawara are Shibata Machi (3 km), Zao Machi (8 km), Kakuda Shi (8 km).