It reads しろいしちょう — Shiroishi 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. Shiroishi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shiroishi.
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白石町 is read しろいしちょう (Shiroishi Cho). It is a town in Saga 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.
Shiroishi has a population of 21,902 across 100 km², making it the 851st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 12th largest of the 20 in Saga.
The closest municipalities to Shiroishi are Kashima Shi (4 km), Ureshino Shi (5 km), Omachi Cho (8 km).