It reads やまのべまち — Yamanobe 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. Yamanobe is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yamanobe.
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山辺町 is read やまのべまち (Yamanobe Machi). It is a town in Yamagata 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.
Yamanobe has a population of 13,610 across 61 km², making it the 1034th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 30 in Yamagata.
The closest municipalities to Yamanobe are Nakayama Machi (6 km), Oe Machi (10 km), Sagae Shi (11 km).