It reads にゅうぜんまち — Nyuzen 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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Nyūzen is a town in Shimoniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 May 2018, the town had an estimated population of 25,007 in 8,970 households and a population density of 350 persons per km2. The total area of the town was 71.25 square kilometres (27.51 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Nyuzen.
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入善町 is read にゅうぜんまち (Nyuzen Machi). It is a town in Toyama 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.
Nyuzen has a population of 23,537 across 71 km², making it the 828th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 14 in Toyama.
The closest municipalities to Nyuzen are Kurobe Shi (9 km), Uozu Shi (14 km), Namerikawa Shi (24 km).