It reads おおいたし — Oita Shi. 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. Oita is marked in red.
Oita often refers to:Ōita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan Ōita (city), the capital of the prefecture
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oita.
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大分市 is read おおいたし (Oita Shi). It is a city in Ōita Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
The closest municipalities to Oita are Beppu Shi (12 km), Yufu Shi (17 km), Hiji Machi (17 km).