It reads あなみずまち — Anamizu 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. Anamizu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Anamizu.
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穴水町 is read あなみずまち (Anamizu Machi). It is a town in Ishikawa 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.
Anamizu has a population of 7,869 across 183 km², making it the 1210th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Anamizu are Wajima Shi (19 km), Nanao Shi (20 km), Noto Cho (24 km).