It reads おとふけちょう — Otofuke Cho.
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. Otofuke is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Otofuke.
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音更町 is read おとふけちょう (Otofuke Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Otofuke has a population of 44,049 across 466 km², making it the 558th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Otofuke are Obihiro Shi (8 km), Memuro Cho (14 km), Makubetsu Cho (16 km).