It reads しらこまち — Shirako 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. Shirako is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shirako.
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白子町 is read しらこまち (Shirako Machi). It is a town in Chiba 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.
Shirako has a population of 10,280 across 28 km², making it the 1131st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 46th largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Shirako are Chosei Mura (4 km), Mobara Shi (8 km), Oamishirasato Shi (9 km).