It reads しもいちちょう — Shimoichi 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. Shimoichi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shimoichi.
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下市町 is read しもいちちょう (Shimoichi Cho). It is a town in Nara 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.
Shimoichi has a population of 4,712 across 62 km², making it the 1366th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Shimoichi are Oyodo Cho (4 km), Yoshino Cho (7 km), Gojo Shi (8 km).