It reads あわしまうらむら — Awashimaura 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 Awashimaura.
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粟島浦村 is read あわしまうらむら (Awashimaura Mura). It is a village in Niigata 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.
Awashimaura has a population of 346 across 10 km², making it the 1608th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 28th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Awashimaura are Murakami Shi (34 km), Tainai Shi (47 km), Sekikawa Mura (50 km).