It reads ひちそうちょう — Hichiso 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Hichiso.
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七宗町 is read ひちそうちょう (Hichiso 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.
Hichiso has a population of 3,354 across 90 km², making it the 1440th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 36th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Hichiso are Shirakawa Cho (7 km), Yaotsu Cho (8 km), Mitake Cho (11 km).