It reads かわもとまち — Kawamoto 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. Kawamoto is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kawamoto.
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川本町 is read かわもとまち (Kawamoto Machi). It is a town in Shimane 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.
Kawamoto has a population of 3,039 across 31 km², making it the 1460th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 18 in Shimane.
The closest municipalities to Kawamoto are Onan Cho (12 km), Iinan Cho (20 km), Oda Shi (23 km).