It reads あいずみちょう — Aizumi Cho.
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. Aizumi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Aizumi.
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藍住町 is read あいずみちょう (Aizumi Cho). It is a town in Tokushima 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.
Aizumi has a population of 35,269 across 16 km², making it the 645th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 6th largest of the 24 in Tokushima.
The closest municipalities to Aizumi are Itano Cho (4 km), Kitajima Cho (5 km), Ishii Cho (7 km).