It reads しょうどしまちょう — Shodoshima 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. Shodoshima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Shodoshima.
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小豆島町 is read しょうどしまちょう (Shodoshima Cho). It is a town in Kagawa 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.
Shodoshima has a population of 13,646 across 96 km², making it the 1033rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 17 in Kagawa.
The closest municipalities to Shodoshima are Tonosho Cho (5 km), Sanuki Shi (17 km), Takamatsu Shi (21 km).