It reads おかがきまち — Okagaki 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. Okagaki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Okagaki.
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岡垣町 is read おかがきまち (Okagaki Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Okagaki has a population of 30,891 across 49 km², making it the 718th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Okagaki are Ashiya Machi (6 km), Onga Cho (6 km), Munakata Shi (7 km).