It reads あいべつちょう — Aibetsu 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. Aibetsu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Aibetsu.
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愛別町 is read あいべつちょう (Aibetsu Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Aibetsu has a population of 2,681 across 250 km², making it the 1490th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 138th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Aibetsu are Pippu Cho (9 km), Toma Cho (11 km), Wassamu Cho (19 km).