It reads ひのはらむら — Hinohara 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 Hinohara.
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檜原村 is read ひのはらむら (Hinohara Mura). It is a village in Tokyo 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.
Hinohara has a population of 1,954 across 105 km², making it the 1532nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 34th largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Hinohara are Uenohara Shi (10 km), Okutama Machi (10 km), Hinode Machi (11 km).