It reads おおぎみそん — Ogimi 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.
Play Chimei →Every dot is one of Japan's 1,651 municipalities, plotted at its real coordinates. Ogimi is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ogimi.
These are affiliate links. Nihoner may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
大宜味村 is read おおぎみそん (Ogimi Son). It is a village in Okinawa 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.
Ogimi has a population of 2,931 across 64 km², making it the 1475th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 30th largest of the 41 in Okinawa.
The closest municipalities to Ogimi are Kunigami Son (6 km), Higashison (10 km), Nakijin Son (15 km).