It reads にしのしまちょう — Nishinoshima 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Nishinoshima.
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西ノ島町 is read にしのしまちょう (Nishinoshima Cho). It is a town in Shimane 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.
Nishinoshima has a population of 2,777 across 56 km², making it the 1486th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 18 in Shimane.
The closest municipalities to Nishinoshima are Ama Cho (9 km), Chibu Mura (10 km), Okinoshima Cho (33 km).