It reads かいようちょう — Kaiyo 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. Kaiyo is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kaiyo.
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海陽町 is read かいようちょう (Kaiyo 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.
Kaiyo has a population of 8,301 across 328 km², making it the 1192nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 24 in Tokushima.
The closest municipalities to Kaiyo are Toyo Cho (11 km), Mugi Cho (11 km), Minami Cho (24 km).