It reads きそまち — Kiso 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. Kiso is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kiso.
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木曽町 is read きそまち (Kiso Machi). It is a town in Nagano 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.
Kiso has a population of 10,429 across 476 km², making it the 1129th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Kiso are Agematsu Machi (6 km), Otaki Mura (13 km), Kiso Mura (13 km).