It reads のぎまち — Nogi 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.
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Nogi is a town located in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2020, the town had an estimated population of 25,050 in 10,153 households, and a population density of 830 persons per km2. The total area of the town is 30.26 square kilometres (11.68 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nogi.
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野木町 is read のぎまち (Nogi Machi). It is a town in Tochigi 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.
Nogi has a population of 24,903 across 30 km², making it the 806th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 23 in Tochigi.
The closest municipalities to Nogi are Oyama Shi (10 km), Itakura Machi (13 km), Yuki Shi (15 km).