It reads たかちほちょう — Takachiho 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. Takachiho is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Takachiho.
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高千穂町 is read たかちほちょう (Takachiho Cho). It is a town in Miyazaki 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.
Takachiho has a population of 11,642 across 237 km², making it the 1086th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 26 in Miyazaki.
The closest municipalities to Takachiho are Hinokage Cho (10 km), Gokase Cho (12 km), Takamori Machi (21 km).