It reads あいづみさとまち — Aizumisato Machi. 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. Aizumisato is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Aizumisato.
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会津美里町 is read あいづみさとまち (Aizumisato Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Aizumisato has a population of 19,078 across 276 km², making it the 896th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Aizumisato are Aizuwakamatsu Shi (10 km), Aizubange Machi (11 km), Yugawa Mura (12 km).