It reads ながしまちょう — Nagashima 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. Nagashima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nagashima.
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長島町 is read ながしまちょう (Nagashima Cho). It is a town in Kagoshima 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.
Nagashima has a population of 9,654 across 116 km², making it the 1152nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Nagashima are Akune Shi (19 km), Izumi Shi (20 km), Minamata Shi (22 km).