It reads ささぐりまち — Sasaguri 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 Sasaguri.
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篠栗町 is read ささぐりまち (Sasaguri Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Sasaguri has a population of 31,092 across 39 km², making it the 713th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Sasaguri are Hisayama Machi (2 km), Sue Machi (4 km), Kasuya Machi (5 km).