It reads しもだし — Shimoda Shi. 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.
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Shimoda is a city and port located in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2024, the city had an estimated population of 19,670 in 10,436 households, and a population density of 188 persons per square kilometre. The total area of the city is 104.71 square kilometres (40.43 sq mi). In the 1850s, Japan was in political crisis over its increasing inability to maintain its national seclusion policy and the issue of what relations, if any, it should have with foreign powers. For a few years, Shimoda was central to this debate.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shimoda.
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下田市 is read しもだし (Shimoda Shi). It is a city in Shizuoka Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Shimoda has a population of 20,499 across 104710000 km², making it the 869th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 35 in Shizuoka.
The closest municipalities to Shimoda are Kawazu Cho (9 km), Minamiizu Cho (9 km), Higashiizu Cho (13 km).