It reads とのしょうちょう — Tonosho 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. Tonosho is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Tonosho.
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土庄町 is read とのしょうちょう (Tonosho Cho). It is a town in Kagawa 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.
Tonosho has a population of 12,915 across 74 km², making it the 1054th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 15th largest of the 17 in Kagawa.
The closest municipalities to Tonosho are Shodoshima Cho (5 km), Naoshima Cho (19 km), Sanuki Shi (18 km).