It reads にしあいづまち — Nishiaizu 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. Nishiaizu is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nishiaizu.
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西会津町 is read にしあいづまち (Nishiaizu Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Nishiaizu has a population of 5,597 across 298 km², making it the 1324th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Nishiaizu are Yanaizu Machi (10 km), Mishima Machi (13 km), Aizubange Machi (17 km).