It reads ひえづそん — Hiezu Son. 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 Hiezu.
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日吉津村 is read ひえづそん (Hiezu Son). It is a village in Tottori 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.
Hiezu has a population of 3,520 across 4 km², making it the 1433rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 17th largest of the 19 in Tottori.
The closest municipalities to Hiezu are Yonago Shi (3 km), Hoki Cho (6 km), Yasugi Shi (11 km).