It reads ひがしそん — Higashison. 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 Higashison.
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東村 is read ひがしそん (Higashison). It is a village in Okinawa 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.
Higashison has a population of 1,158, making it the 1570th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 35th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Higashison are Ogimi Son (10 km), Kunigami Son (13 km), Nago Shi (17 km).