It reads おおわにまち — Owani 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. Owani is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Owani.
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大鰐町 is read おおわにまち (Owani Machi). It is a town in Aomori 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.
Owani has a population of 8,442 across 163 km², making it the 1189th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Owani are Hirakawa Shi (8 km), Inakadate Mura (11 km), Hirosaki Shi (13 km).