It reads たけとみちょう — Taketomi 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. Taketomi is marked in red.
Taketomi is a town located in Yaeyama District, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taketomi.
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竹富町 is read たけとみちょう (Taketomi Cho). It is a town in Okinawa 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.
Taketomi has a population of 4,043 across 334 km², making it the 1403rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Taketomi are Ishigaki Shi (28 km), Yonaguni Cho (92 km), Tarama Son (93 km).