It reads たてやままち — Tateyama 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.
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Tateyama is a town located in Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2016, the town had an estimated population of 26,212 in 9452 households and a population density of 85 persons per km². The total area of the town was 307.29 square kilometres (118.65 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tateyama.
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立山町 is read たてやままち (Tateyama Machi). It is a town in Toyama 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.
Tateyama has a population of 24,996 across 307 km², making it the 805th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 14 in Toyama.
The closest municipalities to Tateyama are Funahashi Mura (4 km), Kamiichi Machi (6 km), Toyama Shi (10 km).