Originally Posted by
AlwaysAisle
I think you meant Tookamachi, 十日町, in Niigata. Maybe even the city website spell it as “tokamachi” but it is とうかまち as in “to” followed by “o” not とかまち.
He didn't spell it using Kana, he used Roman letters. There is no one set standard for Romanizing, so arguing for the best way to represent a city name in an alphabet system that it wasn't intended for is like spitting into the wind.