Place names・Hiroshima

HatsukaichiHatsukaichi

Also known as: 廿日市・廿日市市

A city in western Hiroshima Prefecture that includes Miyajima. Its name, written with the characters for 'twentieth day,' comes from a market once held on the twentieth of each month, and it is known as a hard-to-read place name.

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