It reads わたりちょう — Watari Cho.
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. Watari is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Watari.
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亘理町 is read わたりちょう (Watari Cho). It is a town in Miyagi 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.
Watari has a population of 32,846 across 74 km², making it the 677th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 31 in Miyagi.
The closest municipalities to Watari are Iwanuma Shi (8 km), Kakuda Shi (9 km), Shibata Machi (9 km).