It reads あおきむら — Aoki Mura. 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 Aoki.
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青木村 is read あおきむら (Aoki Mura). It is a village in Nagano Prefecture.
村 means "village" and is read mura / son. A village. 村 is read either mura or son, again by local convention rather than by rule.
Aoki has a population of 4,083 across 57 km², making it the 1401st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 52nd largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Aoki are Sakaki Machi (10 km), Chikuhoku Mura (12 km), Omi Mura (12 km).