It reads かわねほんちょう — Kawanehon 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 Kawanehon.
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川根本町 is read かわねほんちょう (Kawanehon Cho). It is a town in Shizuoka 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.
Kawanehon has a population of 6,101 across 497 km², making it the 1296th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 34th largest of the 35 in Shizuoka.
The closest municipalities to Kawanehon are Shimada Shi (25 km), Fujieda Shi (25 km), Mori Machi (26 km).