It reads しらかわちょう — Shirakawa Cho. 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. Shirakawa is marked in red.
白川町 is a municipality in Gifu Ken, Japan. More information will be added soon.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shirakawa.
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白川町 is read しらかわちょう (Shirakawa Cho). It is a town in Gifu 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.
The closest municipalities to Shirakawa are Hichiso Cho (7 km), Yaotsu Cho (12 km), Higashishirakawa Mura (14 km).