It reads たがちょう — Taga 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Taga is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taga.
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多賀町 is read たがちょう (Taga Cho). It is a town in Shiga 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.
Taga has a population of 7,237 across 14 km², making it the 1238th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 17 in Shiga.
The closest municipalities to Taga are Kora Cho (4 km), Hikone Shi (6 km), Toyosato Cho (6 km).