It reads すみたちょう — Sumita 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. Sumita is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Sumita.
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住田町 is read すみたちょう (Sumita Cho). It is a town in Iwate 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.
Sumita has a population of 4,997 across 335 km², making it the 1352nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Sumita are Rikuzentakata Shi (13 km), Ofunato Shi (14 km), Tono Shi (22 km).