It reads とさちょう — Tosa Cho. 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.
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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Tosa is a town located in Tosa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 May 2022, the town had an estimated population of 3,670 in 1,908 households and a population density of 17 people per km². The total area of the town is 212.13 square kilometres (81.90 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tosa.
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土佐町 is read とさちょう (Tosa Cho). It is a town in Kōchi 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.
Tosa has a population of 3,690 across 212 km², making it the 1424th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Tosa are Motoyama Cho (5 km), Okawa Mura (8 km), Otoyo Cho (11 km).