It reads とよのちょう — Toyono 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. Toyono is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Toyono.
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豊能町 is read とよのちょう (Toyono Cho). It is a town in Osaka 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.
Toyono has a population of 18,011 across 34 km², making it the 919th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 34th largest of the 40 in Osaka.
The closest municipalities to Toyono are Nose Cho (9 km), Minoo Shi (10 km), Kawanishi Shi (11 km).