It reads よこぜまち — Yokoze 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Yokoze.
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横瀬町 is read よこぜまち (Yokoze Machi). It is a town in Saitama 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.
Yokoze has a population of 7,933 across 49 km², making it the 1207th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 60th largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Yokoze are Chichibu Shi (2 km), Minano Machi (9 km), Ogano Machi (10 km).