It reads おやまちょう — Oyama Cho. 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.
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Oyama is a town located in Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2023, the town had an estimated population of 17,297 in 7496 households and a population density of 127 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 135.74 square kilometres (52.41 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oyama.
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小山町 is read おやまちょう (Oyama Cho). It is a town in Shizuoka 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.
Oyama has a population of 18,181 across 136 km², making it the 915th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 35 in Shizuoka.
The closest municipalities to Oyama are Gotenba Shi (7 km), Minamiashigara Shi (11 km), Kaisei Machi (12 km).