It reads さざちょう — Saza 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. Saza is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Saza.
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佐々町 is read さざちょう (Saza Cho). It is a town in Nagasaki 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.
Saza has a population of 13,942 across 32 km², making it the 1024th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Saza are Sasebo Shi (8 km), Matsuura Shi (13 km), Arita Cho (17 km).