It reads せいかちょう — Seika Cho.
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. Seika is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Seika.
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精華町 is read せいかちょう (Seika Cho). It is a town in Kyoto 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.
Seika has a population of 35,951 across 26 km², making it the 634th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Seika are Kizugawa Shi (4 km), Ide Cho (4 km), Kyotanabe Shi (7 km).