It reads にしいずちょう — Nishiizu 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Nishiizu.
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西伊豆町 is read にしいずちょう (Nishiizu Cho). It is a town in Shizuoka 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.
Nishiizu has a population of 7,040 across 106 km², making it the 1245th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 35 in Shizuoka.
The closest municipalities to Nishiizu are Matsuzaki Cho (2 km), Minamiizu Cho (15 km), Shimoda Shi (19 km).