It reads きそむら — Kiso 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 Kiso.
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木祖村 is read きそむら (Kiso 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.
Kiso has a population of 2,625 across 141 km², making it the 1491st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 59th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Kiso are Kiso Machi (13 km), Minowa Machi (18 km), Agematsu Machi (18 km).