It reads おおぐちちょう — Oguchi 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. Oguchi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oguchi.
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大口町 is read おおぐちちょう (Oguchi Cho). It is a town in Aichi 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.
Oguchi has a population of 24,234 across 14 km², making it the 819th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 43rd largest of the 50 in Aichi.
The closest municipalities to Oguchi are Komaki Shi (3 km), Fuso Cho (4 km), Iwakura Shi (5 km).