It reads きそさきちょう — Kisosaki 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 Kisosaki.
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木曽岬町 is read きそさきちょう (Kisosaki Cho). It is a town in Mie 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.
Kisosaki has a population of 6,086 across 16 km², making it the 1298th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Kisosaki are Kuwana Shi (3 km), Yatomi Shi (6 km), Tobishima Mura (6 km).