It reads もりまち — Mori 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. Mori is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mori.
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森町 is read もりまち (Mori Machi). It is a town in Shizuoka 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.
Mori has a population of 17,333 across 134 km², making it the 929th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 35 in Shizuoka.
The closest municipalities to Mori are Fukuroi Shi (9 km), Kakegawa Shi (10 km), Iwata Shi (14 km).