It reads おおさきちょう — Osaki 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Osaki.
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大崎町 is read おおさきちょう (Osaki Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Osaki has a population of 12,092 across 101 km², making it the 1074th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Osaki are Higashikushira Cho (5 km), Kimotsuki Cho (11 km), Shibushi Shi (12 km).