It reads みまたちょう — Mimata 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. Mimata is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mimata.
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三股町 is read みまたちょう (Mimata 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.
Mimata has a population of 25,474 across 110 km², making it the 799th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 8th largest of the 26 in Miyazaki.
The closest municipalities to Mimata are Miyakonojo Shi (5 km), Soo Shi (12 km), Takaharu Cho (25 km).