It reads とよやまちょう — Toyoyama 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Toyoyama.
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豊山町 is read とよやまちょう (Toyoyama Cho). It is a town in Aichi 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.
Toyoyama has a population of 15,729 across 6 km², making it the 961st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 45th largest of the 50 in Aichi.
The closest municipalities to Toyoyama are Kitanagoya Shi (3 km), Iwakura Shi (4 km), Komaki Shi (5 km).