It reads ひがしそのぎちょう — Higashisonogi 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 Higashisonogi.
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東彼杵町 is read ひがしそのぎちょう (Higashisonogi Cho). It is a town in Nagasaki 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.
Higashisonogi has a population of 7,656 across 74 km², making it the 1218th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 21 in Nagasaki.
The closest municipalities to Higashisonogi are Kawatana Cho (7 km), Hasami Cho (12 km), Omura Shi (15 km).