It reads いつきむら — Itsuki 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 Itsuki.
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五木村 is read いつきむら (Itsuki Mura). It is a village in Kumamoto 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.
Itsuki has a population of 887 across 253 km², making it the 1585th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 45th largest of the 45 in Kumamoto.
The closest municipalities to Itsuki are Sagara Mura (17 km), Yamae Mura (17 km), Asagiri Cho (18 km).