It reads おがのまち — Ogano 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.
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. Ogano is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ogano.
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小鹿野町 is read おがのまち (Ogano Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Ogano has a population of 10,751 across 171 km², making it the 1114th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 57th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Ogano are Chichibu Shi (8 km), Minano Machi (9 km), Yokoze Machi (10 km).