It reads ひがしどおりむら — Higashidori 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 Higashidori.
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東通村 is read ひがしどおりむら (Higashidori Mura). It is a village in Aomori 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.
Higashidori has a population of 5,809 across 295 km², making it the 1314th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 23rd largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Higashidori are Mutsu Shi (11 km), Yokohama Machi (22 km), Rokkasho Mura (34 km).