It reads みのぶちょう — Minobu 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 Minobu.
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身延町 is read みのぶちょう (Minobu Cho). It is a town in Yamanashi 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.
Minobu has a population of 10,440 across 302 km², making it the 1128th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Minobu are Hayakawa Cho (11 km), Ichikawamisato Cho (11 km), Minami-alps Shi (16 km).