It reads たのちょう — Tano 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Tano.
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田野町 is read たのちょう (Tano Cho). It is a town in Kōchi 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.
Tano has a population of 2,509 across 7 km², making it the 1500th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Tano are Nahari Cho (2 km), Kitagawa Mura (4 km), Yasuda Cho (4 km).