It reads のせちょう — Nose 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. Nose is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nose.
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能勢町 is read のせちょう (Nose Cho). It is a town in Osaka 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.
Nose has a population of 8,942 across 99 km², making it the 1168th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 40 in Osaka.
The closest municipalities to Nose are Toyono Cho (9 km), Inagawa Cho (10 km), Kawanishi Shi (15 km).