It reads いちのへまち — Ichinohe 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. Ichinohe is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ichinohe.
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一戸町 is read いちのへまち (Ichinohe Machi). It is a town in Iwate 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.
Ichinohe has a population of 11,296 across 300 km², making it the 1097th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Ichinohe are Ninohe Shi (8 km), Kunohe Mura (11 km), Sannohe Machi (19 km).