It reads こものちょう — Komono Cho.
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. Komono is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Komono.
Booking links are affiliate links — they cost you nothing and help keep Nihoner free.
These are affiliate links. Nihoner may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
菰野町 is read こものちょう (Komono 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.
Komono has a population of 40,329 across 107 km², making it the 599th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Komono are Toin Cho (11 km), Yokkaichi Shi (12 km), Asahi Cho (14 km).