It reads みなみみのわむら — Minamiminowa 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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南箕輪村 is read みなみみのわむら (Minamiminowa 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.
Minamiminowa has a population of 15,727 across 41 km², making it the 962nd largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 25th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Minamiminowa are Minowa Machi (4 km), Ina Shi (5 km), Tatsuno Machi (11 km).