It reads じんせきこうげんちょう — Jinsekikogen 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. Jinsekikogen is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Jinsekikogen.
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神石高原町 is read じんせきこうげんちょう (Jinsekikogen Cho). It is a town in Hiroshima 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.
Jinsekikogen has a population of 8,064 across 382 km², making it the 1203rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Jinsekikogen are Fuchu Shi (15 km), Sera Cho (21 km), Ibara Shi (24 km).