It reads おがわむら — Ogawa 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 Ogawa.
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小川村 is read おがわむら (Ogawa 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.
Ogawa has a population of 2,288 across 58 km², making it the 1517th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 62nd largest of the 73 in Nagano.
The closest municipalities to Ogawa are Hakuba Mura (13 km), Omachi Shi (16 km), Chikuma Shi (16 km).