It reads たかはぎし — Takahagi Shi. 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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Takahagi is a city located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 July 2020, the city had an estimated population of 27,522 in 11,651 households and a population density of 140 persons per km2. The percentage of the population aged over 65 was 36.2%. The total area of the city is 193.58 square kilometres (74.74 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Takahagi.
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高萩市 is read たかはぎし (Takahagi Shi). It is a city in Ibaraki Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Takahagi has a population of 27,251 across 194 km², making it the 771st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 33rd largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Takahagi are Kitaibaraki Shi (10 km), Hitachi Shi (15 km), Hitachiota Shi (26 km).