It reads まさきちょう — Masaki 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. Masaki is marked in red.
Matsumae is a town located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. The former home of the Matsumae Han, it has an Edo period castle, Matsumae Castle, the only one in Hokkaido, and Ryūun-in.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Masaki.
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松前町 is read まさきちょう (Masaki 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.
Masaki has a population of 6,754 across 293 km², making it the 1260th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 20 in Ehime.
The closest municipalities to Masaki are Fukushima Cho (12 km), Shiriuchi Cho (30 km), Kikonai Cho (37 km).