It reads たけとよちょう — Taketoyo Cho.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Taketoyo.
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武豊町 is read たけとよちょう (Taketoyo Cho). It is a town in Aichi 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.
Taketoyo has a population of 43,095 across 26 km², making it the 570th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 36th largest of the 50 in Aichi.
The closest municipalities to Taketoyo are Handa Shi (6 km), Tokoname Shi (7 km), Agui Cho (7 km).