It reads いねちょう — Ine 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. Ine is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ine.
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伊根町 is read いねちょう (Ine 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.
Ine has a population of 1,853 across 62 km², making it the 1537th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Ine are Miyazu Shi (17 km), Yosano Cho (18 km), Kyotango Shi (21 km).