It reads ゆうすいちょう — Yusui 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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Yūsui is a town located in Aira District, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.As of 31 March 2024, the town had an estimated population of 8,361 in 4600 households, and a population density of 58 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 144.29 km2 (55.71 sq mi). "Yūsui" literally means "spring water", referring to springs in the town.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yusui.
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湧水町 is read ゆうすいちょう (Yusui Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Yusui has a population of 9,265 across 144 km², making it the 1162nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Yusui are Ebino Shi (13 km), Isa Shi (16 km), Kobayashi Shi (24 km).