It reads わじまし — Wajima 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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Wajima is a city located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 January 2018, the city had an estimated population of 27,698 in 12,768 households, and a population density of 65 persons per km². The total area of the city was 426.32 square kilometres (164.60 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Wajima.
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輪島市 is read わじまし (Wajima Shi). It is a city in Ishikawa Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Wajima has a population of 24,507 across 426 km², making it the 814th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 10th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Wajima are Anamizu Machi (19 km), Noto Cho (24 km), Suzu Shi (32 km).