It reads うたづちょう — Utazu 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Utazu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Utazu.
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宇多津町 is read うたづちょう (Utazu Cho). It is a town in Kagawa 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.
Utazu has a population of 18,897 across 8 km², making it the 900th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 17 in Kagawa.
The closest municipalities to Utazu are Marugame Shi (2 km), Sakaide Shi (5 km), Tadotsu Cho (7 km).