It reads にちなんちょう — Nichinan 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. Nichinan is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nichinan.
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日南町 is read にちなんちょう (Nichinan Cho). It is a town in Tottori 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.
Nichinan has a population of 4,033 across 341 km², making it the 1405th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Nichinan are Hino Cho (13 km), Nanbu Cho (19 km), Kofu Cho (20 km).