It reads みたねちょう — Mitane 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Mitane is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mitane.
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三種町 is read みたねちょう (Mitane Cho). It is a town in Akita 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.
Mitane has a population of 14,944 across 248 km², making it the 992nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 24 in Akita.
The closest municipalities to Mitane are Ogata Mura (10 km), Noshiro Shi (13 km), Hachirogata Machi (19 km).