It reads ひがししらかわむら — Higashishirakawa 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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東白川村 is read ひがししらかわむら (Higashishirakawa Mura). It is a village in Gifu 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.
Higashishirakawa has a population of 2,000 across 87 km², making it the 1530th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 40 in Gifu.
The closest municipalities to Higashishirakawa are Shirakawa Cho (14 km), Gero Shi (20 km), Hichiso Cho (21 km).