It reads にしかつらちょう — Nishikatsura 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. Nishikatsura is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nishikatsura.
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西桂町 is read にしかつらちょう (Nishikatsura Cho). It is a town in Yamanashi 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.
Nishikatsura has a population of 3,993 across 15 km², making it the 1408th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 20th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Nishikatsura are Fujiyoshida Shi (4 km), Fujikawaguchiko Machi (7 km), Oshino Mura (7 km).