It reads とねまち — Tone 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. Tone is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tone.
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利根町 is read とねまち (Tone Machi). It is a town in Ibaraki 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.
Tone has a population of 15,035 across 25 km², making it the 991st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 38th largest of the 42 in Ibaraki.
The closest municipalities to Tone are Inzai Shi (2 km), Ryugasaki Shi (6 km), Abiko Shi (9 km).