It reads よさのちょう — Yosano 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. Yosano is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yosano.
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与謝野町 is read よさのちょう (Yosano Cho). It is a town in Kyoto 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.
Yosano has a population of 19,726 across 108 km², making it the 882nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 16th largest of the 26 in Kyoto.
The closest municipalities to Yosano are Miyazu Shi (5 km), Kyotango Shi (12 km), Ine Cho (18 km).