It reads わかさちょう — Wakasa 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Wakasa.
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若桜町 is read わかさちょう (Wakasa Cho). It is a town in Tottori 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.
Wakasa has a population of 2,834 across 199 km², making it the 1481st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Wakasa are Yazu Cho (15 km), Chizu Cho (17 km), Nishiawakura Son (19 km).