It reads さかちょう — Saka 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Saka is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Saka.
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坂町 is read さかちょう (Saka Cho). It is a town in Hiroshima 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.
Saka has a population of 12,611 across 16 km², making it the 1063rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Saka are Kaita Cho (5 km), Fuchu Cho (6 km), Kumano Cho (8 km).