It reads みやだむら — Miyada 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.
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Measured as real great-circle distance from Miyada.
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宮田村 is read みやだむら (Miyada 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.
Miyada has a population of 8,593 across 55 km², making it the 1181st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 37th largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Miyada are Komagane Shi (4 km), Ina Shi (7 km), Iijima Machi (11 km).