It reads とうごうちょう — Togo Cho.
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. Togo is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Togo.
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東郷町 is read とうごうちょう (Togo Cho). It is a town in Aichi 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.
Togo has a population of 44,065 across 18 km², making it the 557th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 34th largest of the 50 in Aichi.
The closest municipalities to Togo are Toyoake Shi (5 km), Nisshin Shi (6 km), Chiryu Shi (9 km).