It reads みなみあいきむら — Minamiaiki 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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南相木村 is read みなみあいきむら (Minamiaiki 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.
Minamiaiki has a population of 926 across 66 km², making it the 1583rd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 68th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Minamiaiki are Kitaaiki Mura (2 km), Minamimaki Mura (5 km), Koumi Machi (8 km).