It reads しばたまち — Shibata 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 Shibata.
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柴田町 is read しばたまち (Shibata Machi). It is a town in Miyagi 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.
Shibata has a population of 38,638 across 54 km², making it the 618th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 31 in Miyagi.
The closest municipalities to Shibata are Ogawara Machi (3 km), Murata Machi (8 km), Kakuda Shi (9 km).