It reads しんちまち — Shinchi 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Shinchi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shinchi.
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新地町 is read しんちまち (Shinchi Machi). It is a town in Fukushima 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.
Shinchi has a population of 8,051 across 47 km², making it the 1205th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 58 in Fukushima.
The closest municipalities to Shinchi are Soma Shi (8 km), Yamamoto Cho (10 km), Marumori Machi (15 km).