It reads おおいそまち — Oiso Machi.
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. Oiso is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oiso.
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大磯町 is read おおいそまち (Oiso 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.
Oiso has a population of 31,121 across 17 km², making it the 712th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Oiso are Hiratsuka Shi (5 km), Nakai Machi (8 km), Isehara Shi (9 km).