It reads たくし — Taku Shi. 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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Taku is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. As of 1 May 2024, the city had an estimated population of 17,807 in 7,912 households, and a population density of 180 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 125.13 km2 (48.31 sq mi). Taku joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities in 2017.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taku.
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多久市 is read たくし (Taku Shi). It is a city in Saga Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Taku has a population of 18,215 across 97 km², making it the 912th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 20 in Saga.
The closest municipalities to Taku are Kohoku Machi (9 km), Ogi Shi (10 km), Omachi Cho (10 km).