It reads たつのまち — Tatsuno Machi. 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. Tatsuno is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tatsuno.
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辰野町 is read たつのまち (Tatsuno Machi). It is a town in Nagano 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.
Tatsuno has a population of 18,503 across 169 km², making it the 906th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 24th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Tatsuno are Minowa Machi (8 km), Minamiminowa Mura (11 km), Okaya Shi (13 km).