It reads おしのむら — Oshino 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 Oshino.
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忍野村 is read おしのむら (Oshino 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.
Oshino has a population of 9,270 across 25 km², making it the 1161st largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 18th largest of the 25 in Yamanashi.
The closest municipalities to Oshino are Fujiyoshida Shi (5 km), Yamanakako Mura (6 km), Nishikatsura Cho (7 km).