It reads いしかわまち — Ishikawa 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. Ishikawa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ishikawa.
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石川町 is read いしかわまち (Ishikawa 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.
Ishikawa has a population of 14,222 across 116 km², making it the 1014th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Ishikawa are Asakawa Machi (9 km), Tamakawa Mura (9 km), Nakajima Mura (9 km).