It reads とさしみずし — Tosashimizu 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.
Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Tosashimizu is marked in red.
Tosashimizu is a city located in the southwest of Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 July 2022, the city had an estimated population of 12,407 in 7,004 households, and a population density of 47 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 266.34 square kilometres (102.83 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tosashimizu.
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土佐清水市 is read とさしみずし (Tosashimizu 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.
Tosashimizu has a population of 11,925 across 266 km², making it the 1079th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Tosashimizu are Mihara Mura (17 km), Otsuki Cho (24 km), Shimanto Shi (24 km).