It reads さむかわまち — Samukawa Machi.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Samukawa.
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寒川町 is read さむかわまち (Samukawa Machi). It is a town in Kanagawa 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.
Samukawa has a population of 48,532 across 13 km², making it the 513th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Samukawa are Chigasaki Shi (4 km), Hiratsuka Shi (6 km), Atsugi Shi (8 km).