It reads によどがわちょう — Niyodogawa 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 Niyodogawa.
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仁淀川町 is read によどがわちょう (Niyodogawa Cho). It is a town in Kōchi 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.
Niyodogawa has a population of 4,639 across 333 km², making it the 1370th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 19th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Niyodogawa are Ochi Cho (10 km), Sakawa Cho (13 km), Hidaka Mura (19 km).