It reads たかちょう — Taka 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. Taka is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taka.
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多可町 is read たかちょう (Taka Cho). It is a town in Hyōgo 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.
Taka has a population of 19,095 across 185 km², making it the 895th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Taka are Nishiwaki Shi (8 km), Kasai Shi (15 km), Kato Shi (16 km).