It reads やぶきまち — Yabuki Machi. 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. Yabuki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yabuki.
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矢吹町 is read やぶきまち (Yabuki Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Yabuki has a population of 16,823 across 60 km², making it the 938th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Yabuki are Kagamiishi Machi (6 km), Tamakawa Mura (6 km), Izumizaki Mura (7 km).