It reads しらたかまち — Shirataka 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. Shirataka is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shirataka.
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白鷹町 is read しらたかまち (Shirataka Machi). It is a town in Yamagata 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.
Shirataka has a population of 12,663 across 158 km², making it the 1062nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Shirataka are Nagai Shi (8 km), Nan-yo Shi (14 km), Kaminoyama Shi (16 km).