It reads らんざんまち — Ranzan 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. Ranzan is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ranzan.
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嵐山町 is read らんざんまち (Ranzan 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.
Ranzan has a population of 17,954 across 30 km², making it the 920th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 53rd largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Ranzan are Namegawa Machi (3 km), Ogawa Machi (6 km), Tokigawa Machi (6 km).