It reads しもにたまち — Shimonita 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Shimonita.
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下仁田町 is read しもにたまち (Shimonita Machi). It is a town in Gunma 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.
Shimonita has a population of 6,338 across 188 km², making it the 1285th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 32 in Gunma.
The closest municipalities to Shimonita are Tomioka Shi (12 km), Kanra Machi (13 km), Ueno Mura (13 km).