It reads いずもざきまち — Izumozaki 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. Izumozaki is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Izumozaki.
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出雲崎町 is read いずもざきまち (Izumozaki Machi). It is a town in Niigata 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.
Izumozaki has a population of 4,090 across 44 km², making it the 1400th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Izumozaki are Kariwa Mura (13 km), Nagaoka Shi (15 km), Mitsuke Shi (19 km).