It reads きよさとちょう — Kiyosato 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. Kiyosato is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kiyosato.
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清里町 is read きよさとちょう (Kiyosato Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Kiyosato has a population of 3,952 across 403 km², making it the 1410th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 109th largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Kiyosato are Koshimizu Cho (10 km), Shari Cho (11 km), Abashiri Shi (33 km).