It reads あまちょう — Ama 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. Ama is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ama.
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海士町 is read あまちょう (Ama Cho). It is a town in Shimane 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.
Ama has a population of 2,205 across 33 km², making it the 1522nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 18 in Shimane.
The closest municipalities to Ama are Nishinoshima Cho (9 km), Chibu Mura (10 km), Okinoshima Cho (25 km).