It reads かさまつちょう — Kasamatsu 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. Kasamatsu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kasamatsu.
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笠松町 is read かさまつちょう (Kasamatsu Cho). It is a town in Gifu 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.
Kasamatsu has a population of 22,415 across 10 km², making it the 845th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Kasamatsu are Ginan Cho (2 km), Mizuho Shi (6 km), Gifu Shi (6 km).