It reads おぢかちょう — Ojika 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. Ojika is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ojika.
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小値賀町 is read おぢかちょう (Ojika Cho). It is a town in Nagasaki 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.
Ojika has a population of 2,250 across 26 km², making it the 1521st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Ojika are Shinkamigoto Cho (22 km), Hirado Shi (51 km), Saza Cho (56 km).