It reads おおさきかみじまちょう — Osakikamijima 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. Osakikamijima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Osakikamijima.
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大崎上島町 is read おおさきかみじまちょう (Osakikamijima Cho). It is a town in Hiroshima 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.
Osakikamijima has a population of 7,281 across 43 km², making it the 1236th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Osakikamijima are Takehara Shi (8 km), Mihara Shi (22 km), Higashihiroshima Shi (23 km).