It reads どうしむら — Doshi 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Doshi.
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道志村 is read どうしむら (Doshi Mura). It is a village in Yamanashi 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.
Doshi has a population of 1,568 across 80 km², making it the 1550th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Doshi are Tsuru Shi (12 km), Otsuki Shi (13 km), Uenohara Shi (14 km).