It reads さいかいし — Saikai 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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Saikai is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Saikai.
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西海市 is read さいかいし (Saikai Shi). It is a city in Nagasaki Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Saikai has a population of 26,188 across 242 km², making it the 785th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Saikai are Togitsu Cho (22 km), Kawatana Cho (24 km), Nagayo Cho (25 km).