It reads しかまち — Shika Machi. 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. Shika is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shika.
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志賀町 is read しかまち (Shika Machi). It is a town in Ishikawa 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.
Shika has a population of 18,579 across 247 km², making it the 904th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Shika are Hakui Shi (12 km), Nakanoto Machi (12 km), Hodatsushimizu Cho (17 km).