It reads いいやまし — Iiyama Shi. 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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Iiyama is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 February 2019, the city had an estimated population of 20,118 in 7372 households, and a population density of 99 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 202.43 square kilometres (78.16 sq mi). It markets itself as "Japan's Hometown" and is known as the "Little Kyoto of Snow Country".
Measured as real great-circle distance from Iiyama.
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飯山市 is read いいやまし (Iiyama Shi). It is a city in Nagano Prefecture.
市 means "city" and is read shi. A city. 市 is read shi and is the most consistent of the municipal suffixes.
Iiyama has a population of 19,279 across 202 km², making it the 890th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Iiyama are Kijimadaira Mura (3 km), Nozawaonsen Mura (9 km), Nakano Shi (12 km).