It reads みしまむら — Mishima 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. Mishima is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Mishima.
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三島村 is read みしまむら (Mishima Mura). It is a village in Kagoshima 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.
Mishima has a population of 404 across 31 km², making it the 1604th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 43rd largest of the 43 in Kagoshima.
The closest municipalities to Mishima are Toshima Mura (0 km), Kagoshima Shi (2 km), Hioki Shi (15 km).