It reads おおひらむら — Ohira 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. Ohira is marked in red.
Measured as real great-circle distance from Ohira.
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大衡村 is read おおひらむら (Ohira Mura). It is a village in Miyagi 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.
Ohira has a population of 5,739 across 60 km², making it the 1316th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 29th largest of the 31 in Miyagi.
The closest municipalities to Ohira are Taiwa Cho (4 km), Shikama Cho (8 km), Tomiya Shi (8 km).