It reads あすかむら — Asuka 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Asuka is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Asuka.
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明日香村 is read あすかむら (Asuka Mura). It is a village in Nara 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.
Asuka has a population of 5,241 across 24 km², making it the 1337th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 39 in Nara.
The closest municipalities to Asuka are Takatori Cho (5 km), Kashihara Shi (5 km), Sakurai Shi (6 km).