It reads みなみたねちょう — Minamitane 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 Minamitane.
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南種子町 is read みなみたねちょう (Minamitane Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Minamitane has a population of 5,350 across 110 km², making it the 1333rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 39th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Minamitane are Nakatane Cho (14 km), Yakushima Cho (24 km), Nishinoomote Shi (38 km).