It reads いしいちょう — Ishii 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. Ishii is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ishii.
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石井町 is read いしいちょう (Ishii Cho). It is a town in Tokushima 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.
Ishii has a population of 24,856 across 29 km², making it the 810th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 24 in Tokushima.
The closest municipalities to Ishii are Kamiita Cho (6 km), Yoshinogawa Shi (7 km), Aizumi Cho (7 km).