It reads さとしょうちょう — Satosho 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. Satosho is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Satosho.
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里庄町 is read さとしょうちょう (Satosho Cho). It is a town in Okayama 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.
Satosho has a population of 10,969 across 12 km², making it the 1105th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 27 in Okayama.
The closest municipalities to Satosho are Kasaoka Shi (4 km), Asakuchi Shi (4 km), Yakage Cho (13 km).