It reads いかたちょう — Ikata 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. Ikata is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ikata.
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伊方町 is read いかたちょう (Ikata Cho). It is a town in Ehime 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.
Ikata has a population of 8,253 across 94 km², making it the 1195th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 20 in Ehime.
The closest municipalities to Ikata are Yawatahama Shi (6 km), Ozu Shi (19 km), Seiyo Shi (20 km).