It reads なかのとまち — Nakanoto 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. Nakanoto is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nakanoto.
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中能登町 is read なかのとまち (Nakanoto Machi). It is a town in Ishikawa 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.
Nakanoto has a population of 16,442 across 89 km², making it the 951st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 19 in Ishikawa.
The closest municipalities to Nakanoto are Nanao Shi (9 km), Shika Machi (12 km), Hakui Shi (15 km).