It reads かみじまちょう — Kamijima 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Kamijima.
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上島町 is read かみじまちょう (Kamijima Cho). It is a town in Ehime 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.
Kamijima has a population of 6,304 across 30 km², making it the 1288th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 20 in Ehime.
The closest municipalities to Kamijima are Onomichi Shi (19 km), Mihara Shi (20 km), Osakikamijima Cho (28 km).