It reads なんかんまち — Nankan 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. Nankan is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nankan.
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南関町 is read なんかんまち (Nankan Machi). It is a town in Kumamoto 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.
Nankan has a population of 8,821 across 69 km², making it the 1172nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 31st largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Nankan are Omuta Shi (8 km), Nagomi Machi (11 km), Arao Shi (12 km).