It reads なるさわむら — Narusawa 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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Measured as real great-circle distance from Narusawa.
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鳴沢村 is read なるさわむら (Narusawa Mura). It is a village in Yamanashi 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.
Narusawa has a population of 2,904 across 90 km², making it the 1478th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 21st largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Narusawa are Fujikawaguchiko Machi (6 km), Fujiyoshida Shi (10 km), Oshino Mura (12 km).