It reads たるみずし — Tarumizu 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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Tarumizu is a city located in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on October 1, 1958. As of 1 May 2024, the city had an estimated population of 13,114 in 7236 households, and a population density of 81 persons per km². The total area of the city is 162.10 km2 (62.59 sq mi).>
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tarumizu.
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垂水市 is read たるみずし (Tarumizu Shi). It is a city in Kagoshima Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Tarumizu has a population of 13,688 across 162 km², making it the 1031st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Tarumizu are Mishima Mura (17 km), Toshima Mura (17 km), Kagoshima Shi (18 km).