It reads しずくいしちょう — Shizukuishi 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.
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Shizukuishi is a town located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2020, the town had an estimated population of 16,263 in 6354 households, and a population density of 27 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 608.82 square kilometres (235.07 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shizukuishi.
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雫石町 is read しずくいしちょう (Shizukuishi Cho). It is a town in Iwate 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.
Shizukuishi has a population of 15,589 across 609 km², making it the 971st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Shizukuishi are Takizawa Shi (10 km), Morioka Shi (15 km), Yahaba Cho (17 km).