It reads そえだまち — Soeda 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.
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Soeda is a town located in Tagawa District, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2023, the town had an estimated population of 8725 in 4496 households, and a population density of 66 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 132.20 km2 (51.04 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Soeda.
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添田町 is read そえだまち (Soeda Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Soeda has a population of 8,786 across 132 km², making it the 1174th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 51st largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Soeda are Oto Machi (3 km), Akamura (3 km), Kawasaki Machi (5 km).