It reads やずちょう — Yazu 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.
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Yazu is a town located in Yazu District, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. As of 30 November 2022, the town had an estimated population of 16,156 in 6140 households and a population density of 78 persons per km². The total area of the town is 206.71 square kilometres (79.81 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yazu.
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八頭町 is read やずちょう (Yazu 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.
Yazu has a population of 15,642 across 207 km², making it the 967th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Yazu are Tottori Shi (11 km), Chizu Cho (15 km), Wakasa Cho (15 km).