It reads おおづまち — Ozu Machi.
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. Ozu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ozu.
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大津町 is read おおづまち (Ozu Machi). It is a town in Kumamoto 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.
Ozu has a population of 342,607 across 464 km², making it the 63rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 2nd largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Ozu are Nishihara Mura (5 km), Kikuyo Machi (5 km), Koshi Shi (7 km).