It reads はらむら — Hara 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 Hara.
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原村 is read はらむら (Hara 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.
Hara has a population of 7,739 across 43 km², making it the 1214th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 39th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Hara are Fujimi Machi (6 km), Chino Shi (7 km), Suwa Shi (14 km).