It reads たいわちょう — Taiwa Cho.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Taiwa.
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大和町 is read たいわちょう (Taiwa Cho). It is a town in Miyagi 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.
Taiwa has a population of 230,709 across 27 km², making it the 99th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 2nd largest of the 31 in Miyagi.
The closest municipalities to Taiwa are Tomiya Shi (4 km), Ohira Mura (4 km), Osato Cho (10 km).