It reads いわみちょう — Iwami 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. Iwami is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Iwami.
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岩美町 is read いわみちょう (Iwami Cho). It is a town in Tottori 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.
Iwami has a population of 10,675 across 122 km², making it the 1117th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Iwami are Tottori Shi (11 km), Shin-onsen Cho (12 km), Yazu Cho (19 km).