It reads おおまちし — Omachi 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. Omachi is marked in red.
Ōmachi is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 March 2019, the city had an estimated population of 27,559 in 11861 households, and a population density of 49 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 565.15 square kilometres (218.21 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Omachi.
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大町市 is read おおまちし (Omachi Shi). It is a city in Nagano Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Omachi has a population of 25,883 across 565 km², making it the 786th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Omachi are Matsukawa Mura (10 km), Ikusaka Mura (11 km), Ogawa Mura (16 km).