It reads しまんとちょう — Shimanto 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Shimanto.
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四万十町 is read しまんとちょう (Shimanto Cho). It is a town in Kōchi 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.
Shimanto has a population of 15,540 across 642 km², making it the 973rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 11th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Shimanto are Nakatosa Cho (15 km), Kuroshio Cho (24 km), Susaki Shi (26 km).