It reads やちよまち — Yachiyo Machi.
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 Yachiyo.
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八千代町 is read やちよまち (Yachiyo Machi). It is a town in Ibaraki 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.
Yachiyo has a population of 200,538 across 51 km², making it the 112th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 3rd largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Yachiyo are Shimotsuma Shi (8 km), Sakai Machi (12 km), Bando Shi (13 km).