It reads おわせし — Owase Shi. 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.
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Owase is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2021, the city had an estimated population of 16,910, in 9,177 households. The population density was 88 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 192.71 square kilometres (74.41 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Owase.
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尾鷲市 is read おわせし (Owase Shi). It is a city in Mie Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Owase has a population of 16,079 across 193 km², making it the 956th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Owase are Kamikitayama Mura (19 km), Kumano Shi (22 km), Shimokitayama Mura (24 km).