It reads おやべし — Oyabe 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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Oyabe is a city in Toyama Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2018, the city had an estimated population of 30,328 in 10,331 households. and a population density of 230 persons per km2. Its total area was 134.07 square kilometres (51.76 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oyabe.
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小矢部市 is read おやべし (Oyabe Shi). It is a city in Toyama Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Oyabe has a population of 28,634 across 134 km², making it the 744th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 10th largest of the 14 in Toyama.
The closest municipalities to Oyabe are Tonami Shi (9 km), Nanto Shi (11 km), Tsubata Machi (14 km).