It reads たちあらいまち — Tachiarai 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. Tachiarai is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tachiarai.
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大刀洗町 is read たちあらいまち (Tachiarai 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.
Tachiarai has a population of 15,387 across 23 km², making it the 978th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 44th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Tachiarai are Ogori Shi (7 km), Asakura Shi (8 km), Chikuzen Machi (10 km).