It reads みなのまち — Minano Machi. 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. Minano is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Minano.
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皆野町 is read みなのまち (Minano Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Minano has a population of 9,338 across 64 km², making it the 1158th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 59th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Minano are Nagatoro Machi (4 km), Chichibu Shi (8 km), Higashichichibu Mura (9 km).