It reads せらちょう — Sera 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. Sera is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Sera.
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世羅町 is read せらちょう (Sera Cho). It is a town in Hiroshima 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.
Sera has a population of 14,878 across 278 km², making it the 995th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 22 in Hiroshima.
The closest municipalities to Sera are Fuchu Shi (17 km), Mihara Shi (21 km), Jinsekikogen Cho (21 km).