It reads ひのでまち — Hinode 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. Hinode is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hinode.
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日の出町 is read ひのでまち (Hinode Machi). It is a town in Tokyo 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.
Hinode has a population of 17,016 across 28 km², making it the 936th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Hinode are Akiruno Shi (4 km), Ome Shi (7 km), Hamura Shi (7 km).