It reads かりわむら — Kariwa 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Kariwa is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kariwa.
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刈羽村 is read かりわむら (Kariwa Mura). It is a village in Niigata 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.
Kariwa has a population of 4,434 across 26 km², making it the 1384th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 26th largest of the 30 in Niigata.
The closest municipalities to Kariwa are Kashiwazaki Shi (7 km), Izumozaki Machi (13 km), Ojiya Shi (19 km).