It reads よしのがりちょう — Yoshinogari 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Yoshinogari is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yoshinogari.
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吉野ヶ里町 is read よしのがりちょう (Yoshinogari Cho). It is a town in Saga 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.
Yoshinogari has a population of 16,324 across 44 km², making it the 953rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 20 in Saga.
The closest municipalities to Yoshinogari are Kanzaki Shi (1 km), Kamimine Cho (3 km), Miyaki Cho (6 km).