It reads ひだかむら — Hidaka 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 Hidaka.
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日高村 is read ひだかむら (Hidaka Mura). It is a village in Kōchi 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.
Hidaka has a population of 11,648 across 992 km², making it the 1085th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 14th largest of the 32 in Kōchi.
The closest municipalities to Hidaka are Ino Cho (5 km), Tosa Shi (7 km), Sakawa Cho (9 km).