It reads しめまち — Shime Machi.
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. Shime is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shime.
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志免町 is read しめまち (Shime 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.
Shime has a population of 46,207 across 9 km², making it the 542nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Shime are Kasuya Machi (2 km), Sue Machi (3 km), Umi Machi (4 km).