It reads たかはまちょう — Takahama Cho.
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. Takahama is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Takahama.
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高浜町 is read たかはまちょう (Takahama Cho). It is a town in Fukui 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.
Takahama has a population of 48,685 across 13000000 km², making it the 510th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 5th largest of the 12 in Fukui.
The closest municipalities to Takahama are Oi Cho (6 km), Maizuru Shi (15 km), Obama Shi (18 km).