It reads とういんちょう — Toin 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. Toin is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Toin.
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東員町 is read とういんちょう (Toin Cho). It is a town in Mie 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.
Toin has a population of 25,658 across 23 km², making it the 793rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 27 in Mie.
The closest municipalities to Toin are Inabe Shi (6 km), Asahi Cho (7 km), Kuwana Shi (9 km).