It reads みのし — Mino Shi. 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.
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Mino is a city located in Gifu, Japan. As of 31 December 2018, the city had an estimated population of 20,749 in 8149 households, and a population density of 180 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 117.01 square kilometres (45.18 sq mi). The city is renowned for traditional Japanese Mino washi paper and its streets, which are in the style of the early Edo period (1603–1868). An urban area known as "Udatsu Townscape" (うだつのあがるまちなみ) was designated as an important traditional building group conservation area by the government on May 13, 1999.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mino.
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美濃市 is read みのし (Mino Shi). It is a city in Gifu Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Mino has a population of 19,266 across 117 km², making it the 891st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Mino are Seki Shi (6 km), Tomika Cho (9 km), Yamagata Shi (12 km).