It reads うみまち — Umi Machi.
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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Umi.
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宇美町 is read うみまち (Umi Machi). It is a town in Fukuoka 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.
Umi has a population of 37,713 across 30 km², making it the 624th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 60 in Fukuoka.
The closest municipalities to Umi are Sue Machi (2 km), Shime Machi (4 km), Onojo Shi (4 km).