It reads ごのへまち — Gonohe 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. Gonohe is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Gonohe.
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五戸町 is read ごのへまち (Gonohe Machi). It is a town in Aomori 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.
Gonohe has a population of 15,761 across 178 km², making it the 960th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 10th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Gonohe are Rokunohe Machi (9 km), Oirase Cho (10 km), Towada Shi (13 km).