It reads うちなだまち — Uchinada Machi. 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Uchinada is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Uchinada.
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内灘町 is read うちなだまち (Uchinada Machi). It is a town in Ishikawa 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.
Uchinada has a population of 26,503 across 20 km², making it the 781st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Uchinada are Tsubata Machi (8 km), Kanazawa Shi (10 km), Kahoku Shi (10 km).