It reads ゆざわまち — Yuzawa 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 Yuzawa.
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湯沢町 is read ゆざわまち (Yuzawa Machi). It is a town in Niigata 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.
Yuzawa has a population of 7,919 across 357 km², making it the 1208th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Yuzawa are Minamiuonuma Shi (16 km), Tsunan Machi (17 km), Sakae Mura (23 km).