It reads もせうしちょう — Moseushi 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. Moseushi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Moseushi.
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妹背牛町 is read もせうしちょう (Moseushi Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Moseushi has a population of 2,827 across 49 km², making it the 1482nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 133rd largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Moseushi are Chippubetsu Cho (7 km), Hokuryu Cho (7 km), Fukagawa Shi (8 km).