It reads いでちょう — Ide 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Ide is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ide.
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井手町 is read いでちょう (Ide Cho). It is a town in Kyoto 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.
Ide has a population of 7,453 across 18 km², making it the 1228th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Ide are Seika Cho (4 km), Kyotanabe Shi (5 km), Kizugawa Shi (5 km).