It reads くまこうげんちょう — Kumakogen 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 Kumakogen.
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久万高原町 is read くまこうげんちょう (Kumakogen Cho). It is a town in Ehime 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.
Kumakogen has a population of 7,302 across 584 km², making it the 1235th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 20 in Ehime.
The closest municipalities to Kumakogen are Tobe Cho (14 km), Toon Shi (15 km), Iyo Shi (22 km).