It reads たいじちょう — Taiji 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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Taiji is a town located in Higashimuro District, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2021, the town had an estimated population of 2960 in 1567 households and a population density of 510 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 255.23 square kilometres (98.54 sq mi). Taiji is the smallest municipality by area in Wakayama Prefecture.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taiji.
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太地町 is read たいじちょう (Taiji Cho). It is a town in Wakayama 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.
Taiji has a population of 2,778 across 6 km², making it the 1485th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Taiji are Nachikatsuura Cho (4 km), Shingu Shi (14 km), Kiho Cho (16 km).