It reads おのまち — Ono 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. Ono is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ono.
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小野町 is read おのまち (Ono Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Ono has a population of 9,453 across 125 km², making it the 1157th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Ono are Hirata Mura (9 km), Kawauchi Mura (17 km), Tamura Shi (17 km).