It reads よしみまち — Yoshimi 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. Yoshimi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yoshimi.
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吉見町 is read よしみまち (Yoshimi 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.
Yoshimi has a population of 18,133 across 39 km², making it the 917th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 52nd largest of the 62 in Saitama.
The closest municipalities to Yoshimi are Higashimatsuyama Shi (5 km), Kitamoto Shi (7 km), Konosu Shi (7 km).