It reads たらぎまち — Taragi 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. Taragi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Taragi.
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多良木町 is read たらぎまち (Taragi Machi). It is a town in Kumamoto 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.
Taragi has a population of 8,800 across 166 km², making it the 1173rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Taragi are Yunomae Machi (4 km), Asagiri Cho (5 km), Mizukami Mura (8 km).