It reads とおのし — Tono Shi. 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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Tōno is a city in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 January 2020, the city had an estimated population of 26,378, and a population density of 31.6 persons per km2 in 10,759 households. The total area of the city is 825.97 square kilometres (318.91 sq mi). Tōno is known as "The City of Folklore" for its rural nature, its preservation of traditional culture and especially for the collection of folktales, Tōno Monogatari, written by Kunio Yanagita in 1910.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tono.
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遠野市 is read とおのし (Tono Shi). It is a city in Iwate Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Tono has a population of 25,181 across 826 km², making it the 802nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 13th largest of the 33 in Iwate.
The closest municipalities to Tono are Sumita Cho (22 km), Ofunato Shi (31 km), Kamaishi Shi (31 km).