It reads とさし — Tosa 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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Tosa is a city located in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 August 2022, the city had an estimated population of 26,427 in 12,671 households and a population density of 290 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 91.50 square kilometres (35.33 sq mi). The city of Tosa should not be confused with the historical Tosa Province, which covered all of modern-day Kōchi Prefecture.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tosa.
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土佐市 is read とさし (Tosa Shi). It is a city in Kōchi Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Tosa has a population of 25,665 across 91 km², making it the 792nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 6th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Tosa are Ino Cho (4 km), Hidaka Mura (7 km), Kochi Shi (11 km).