It reads ひがしあがつままち — Higashiagatsuma 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. Higashiagatsuma is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Higashiagatsuma.
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東吾妻町 is read ひがしあがつままち (Higashiagatsuma Machi). It is a town in Gunma 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.
Higashiagatsuma has a population of 12,356 across 254 km², making it the 1068th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Higashiagatsuma are Nakanojo Machi (2 km), Naganohara Machi (16 km), Minakami Machi (19 km).