It reads ごうどちょう — Godo 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. Godo is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Godo.
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神戸町 is read ごうどちょう (Godo Cho). It is a town in Gifu 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.
Godo has a population of 18,505 across 19 km², making it the 905th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Godo are Ikeda Cho (4 km), Ono Cho (6 km), Ogaki Shi (6 km).