It reads きみのちょう — Kimino 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 Kimino.
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紀美野町 is read きみのちょう (Kimino Cho). It is a town in Wakayama 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.
Kimino has a population of 8,063 across 128 km², making it the 1204th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 29 in Wakayama.
The closest municipalities to Kimino are Kainan Shi (8 km), Iwade Shi (9 km), Kinokawa Shi (13 km).