It reads かわにしちょう — Kawanishi 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. Kawanishi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kawanishi.
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川西町 is read かわにしちょう (Kawanishi Cho). It is a town in Nara 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.
Kawanishi has a population of 14,196 across 167 km², making it the 1017th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Kawanishi are Miyake Cho (2 km), Ando Cho (2 km), Kawai Cho (3 km).