It reads くにとみちょう — Kunitomi 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 Kunitomi.
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国富町 is read くにとみちょう (Kunitomi Cho). It is a town in Miyazaki 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.
Kunitomi has a population of 18,460 across 131 km², making it the 908th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 26 in Miyazaki.
The closest municipalities to Kunitomi are Aya Cho (6 km), Miyazaki Shi (13 km), Saito Shi (16 km).