It reads みしままち — Mishima Machi.
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. Mishima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mishima.
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三島町 is read みしままち (Mishima Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Mishima has a population of 86,168 across 15 km², making it the 300th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 5th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Mishima are Yanaizu Machi (9 km), Kaneyama Machi (10 km), Nishiaizu Machi (13 km).