It reads たきちょう — Taki 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Taki.
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多気町 is read たきちょう (Taki Cho). It is a town in Mie 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.
Taki has a population of 14,160 across 103 km², making it the 1019th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Taki are Tamaki Cho (8 km), Meiwa Cho (9 km), Watarai Cho (9 km).