It reads ゆにちょう — Yuni 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. Yuni is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Yuni.
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由仁町 is read ゆにちょう (Yuni Cho). It is a town in Hokkaido 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.
Yuni has a population of 4,932 across 134 km², making it the 1357th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 91st largest of the 169 in Hokkaido.
The closest municipalities to Yuni are Kuriyama Cho (7 km), Naganuma Cho (8 km), Nanporo Cho (13 km).