It reads たわらもとちょう — Tawaramoto Cho.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Tawaramoto.
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田原本町 is read たわらもとちょう (Tawaramoto Cho). It is a town in Nara 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.
Tawaramoto has a population of 30,950 across 21 km², making it the 717th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Tawaramoto are Miyake Cho (2 km), Koryo Cho (4 km), Kawanishi Cho (4 km).