It reads あんどちょう — Ando 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. Ando is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ando.
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安堵町 is read あんどちょう (Ando Cho). It is a town in Nara 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.
Ando has a population of 7,196 across 4 km², making it the 1239th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Ando are Kawanishi Cho (2 km), Kawai Cho (3 km), Ikaruga Cho (3 km).