It reads いなわしろまち — Inawashiro 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. Inawashiro is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Inawashiro.
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猪苗代町 is read いなわしろまち (Inawashiro Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Inawashiro has a population of 13,403 across 395 km², making it the 1038th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Inawashiro are Bandai Machi (10 km), Aizuwakamatsu Shi (16 km), Kitashiobara Mura (18 km).