It reads とうほくまち — Tohoku 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. Tohoku is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tohoku.
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東北町 is read とうほくまち (Tohoku Machi). It is a town in Aomori 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.
Tohoku has a population of 16,428 across 327 km², making it the 952nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 9th largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Tohoku are Shichinohe Machi (9 km), Misawa Shi (11 km), Towada Shi (12 km).