It reads いちかわみさとちょう — Ichikawamisato 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.
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市川三郷町 is read いちかわみさとちょう (Ichikawamisato Cho). It is a town in Yamanashi 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.
Ichikawamisato has a population of 14,458 across 75 km², making it the 1007th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Ichikawamisato are Minami-alps Shi (7 km), Showa Cho (8 km), Minobu Cho (11 km).