It reads いせんちょう — Isen 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. Isen is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Isen.
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伊仙町 is read いせんちょう (Isen Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Isen has a population of 5,958 across 63 km², making it the 1305th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 35th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Isen are Tokunoshima Cho (10 km), Amagi Cho (16 km), Wadomari Cho (42 km).