It reads もろつかそん — Morotsuka Son. 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 Morotsuka.
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諸塚村 is read もろつかそん (Morotsuka Son). It is a village in Miyazaki 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.
The closest municipalities to Morotsuka are Misato Cho (12 km), Shiiba Son (16 km), Hinokage Cho (18 km).