It reads とばし — Toba 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.
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Toba is a city located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2021, the city had an estimated population of 17,741 in 8328 households and a population density of 170 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 107.34 square kilometres (41.44 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Toba.
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鳥羽市 is read とばし (Toba Shi). It is a city in Mie Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Toba has a population of 17,421 across 107 km², making it the 927th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Toba are Ise Shi (12 km), Shima Shi (16 km), Minamiise Cho (20 km).