It reads おおたきまち — Otaki Machi. 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. Otaki is marked in red.
Ōtaki is a town located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The town is known for its association with Edo period general Honda Tadakatsu, and its prominent castle. As of 1 January 2019, the town had an estimated population of 8,982 in 3820 households and a population density of 69 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 129.87 square kilometres (50.14 sq mi), making it the largest of Chiba Prefecture's towns and villages.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Otaki.
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大多喜町 is read おおたきまち (Otaki Machi). It is a town in Chiba 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.
Otaki has a population of 8,762 across 130 km², making it the 1176th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 47th largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Otaki are Mutsuzawa Machi (10 km), Chonan Machi (11 km), Isumi Shi (13 km).