It reads こうづしまむら — Kozushima 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. Kozushima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Kozushima.
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神津島村 is read こうづしまむら (Kozushima Mura). It is a village in Tokyo 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.
Kozushima has a population of 1,837 across 19 km², making it the 1538th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 35th largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Kozushima are Niijima Mura (21 km), Miyake Mura (41 km), Mikurajima Mura (54 km).