It reads いなかだてむら — Inakadate 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 Inakadate.
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田舎館村 is read いなかだてむら (Inakadate Mura). It is a village in Aomori 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.
Inakadate has a population of 7,335 across 22 km², making it the 1234th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 22nd largest of the 38 in Aomori.
The closest municipalities to Inakadate are Hirakawa Shi (4 km), Fujisaki Machi (6 km), Kuroishi Shi (6 km).