It reads おいらせちょう — Oirase 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. Oirase is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Oirase.
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おいらせ町 is read おいらせちょう (Oirase Cho). It is a town in Aomori 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.
Oirase has a population of 24,407 across 72 km², making it the 816th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 8th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Oirase are Rokunohe Machi (6 km), Gonohe Machi (10 km), Misawa Shi (11 km).