It reads いくさかむら — Ikusaka 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Ikusaka.
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生坂村 is read いくさかむら (Ikusaka Mura). It is a village in Nagano 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.
Ikusaka has a population of 1,639 across 34 km², making it the 1547th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 63rd largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Ikusaka are Matsukawa Mura (6 km), Chikuhoku Mura (7 km), Omi Mura (11 km).