It reads たこまち — Tako Machi. 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. Tako is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tako.
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多古町 is read たこまち (Tako Machi). It is a town in Chiba 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.
Tako has a population of 13,804 across 73 km², making it the 1029th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 43rd largest of the 54 in Chiba.
The closest municipalities to Tako are Shibayama Machi (8 km), Sosa Shi (9 km), Tomisato Shi (10 km).