It reads きじまだいらむら — Kijimadaira 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 Kijimadaira.
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木島平村 is read きじまだいらむら (Kijimadaira 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.
Kijimadaira has a population of 4,260 across 99 km², making it the 1392nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 50th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Kijimadaira are Iiyama Shi (3 km), Nozawaonsen Mura (8 km), Nakano Shi (12 km).