It reads きたじまちょう — Kitajima 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. Kitajima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kitajima.
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北島町 is read きたじまちょう (Kitajima Cho). It is a town in Tokushima 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.
Kitajima has a population of 22,670 across 9 km², making it the 841st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 24 in Tokushima.
The closest municipalities to Kitajima are Matsushige Cho (4 km), Aizumi Cho (5 km), Tokushima Shi (6 km).