It reads たぶせちょう — Tabuse 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. Tabuse is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tabuse.
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田布施町 is read たぶせちょう (Tabuse Cho). It is a town in Yamaguchi 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.
Tabuse has a population of 14,515 across 50 km², making it the 1005th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 19 in Yamaguchi.
The closest municipalities to Tabuse are Hirao Cho (4 km), Yanai Shi (8 km), Hikari Shi (9 km).