It reads えちぜんちょう — Echizen 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. Echizen is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Echizen.
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越前町 is read えちぜんちょう (Echizen Cho). It is a town in Fukui 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.
Echizen has a population of 19,708 across 153 km², making it the 883rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 12 in Fukui.
The closest municipalities to Echizen are Sabae Shi (6 km), Echizen Shi (8 km), Fukui Shi (14 km).