It reads みやけむら — Miyake 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. Miyake is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Miyake.
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三宅村 is read みやけむら (Miyake 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.
Miyake has a population of 2,539 across 55 km², making it the 1496th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 32nd largest of the 36 in Tokyo.
The closest municipalities to Miyake are Mikurajima Mura (21 km), Kozushima Mura (41 km), Niijima Mura (43 km).