It reads しんおんせんちょう — Shin-onsen 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. Shin-onsen is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shin-onsen.
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新温泉町 is read しんおんせんちょう (Shin-onsen Cho). It is a town in Hyōgo 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.
Shin-onsen has a population of 13,213 across 241 km², making it the 1045th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 40 in Hyōgo.
The closest municipalities to Shin-onsen are Iwami Cho (12 km), Kami Cho (17 km), Tottori Shi (22 km).