It reads とみおかまち — Tomioka Machi.
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. Tomioka is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tomioka.
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富岡町 is read とみおかまち (Tomioka Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Tomioka has a population of 46,928 across 123 km², making it the 532nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 10th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Tomioka are Naraha Machi (8 km), Okuma Machi (8 km), Futaba Machi (11 km).