It reads ただおかちょう — Tadaoka 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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Tadaoka is a town located in Senboku District, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 December 2021, the town had an estimated population of 16,793 in 7854 households and a population density of 1200 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 3.97 square kilometres (1.53 sq mi), making it the smallest town in Japan in terms of land area.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tadaoka.
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忠岡町 is read ただおかちょう (Tadaoka Cho). It is a town in Osaka 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.
Tadaoka has a population of 16,628 across 4 km², making it the 944th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 35th largest of the 40 in Osaka.
The closest municipalities to Tadaoka are Izumiotsu Shi (2 km), Kishiwada Shi (4 km), Takaishi Shi (6 km).